Hot Cross Plums (and something about Gourd of the Dance) - 10 / 10 thread - all welcome

[FrannyandZooey]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page

franny

see we'd all be much better on a commune
with the men visiting when needed

Lully

Unfortunately I know exactly what that's like

FK....bummer

Mmmm, like it LL

Oh Lully, your poor toe!!!!!!!

My mum has bought me some warm woolly socks and the difference in my toes is unbelievable!! They don't even hurt unless I squeeze them, whereas before just thinking about them was painful.

Lots of love to everybody

Hope you feel better in the morning Boco. I haven't had a grandparent in my adult life but my granny was lovely for sympathy. There is no-one to fuss over me. It's a shame that DPs tend not to do that because every now and then it is nice to be taken care of.

I like the commune idea. I've always fancied that. Homegrown veg, women to gossip with, children all over the place and men visiting 'as needed' sounds perfect!

Toots, have you tried Smart Wool socks? They are expensive but the people I know who have them never wear normal socks anymore. I can't afford them so can't vouch for their wonders.

Lully, I'm woried about your toe.

Morning all,
Been pretty good this weekend. I brought some much fruit on Friday. Supposedly to wean ds during the day. We figured that if we had lots of snacky fruit to offer then anytime he asked for milk we could whip out a grape to appease him.
It's going quite well, though my breasts have been a bit rock-like by bedtime.
Course having all this very moreish fruit around has meant I've had grapes, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries (lots of ) and now need to go back to shops because I've eaten most of ds' snacks. oops.

It's weirdly decadant and vaguely immoral feeling to eat all these out of season berries while there is snow on the ground. I feel like I should apologise.

I have also had lots of spinach and salad stuff and am going for ratatouille tonight.

good morning!

nothing yet today but will do that fruit breakfast thing.

I have to do some tidying today. I hate tidying.

Mrs C - I'm so pleased you have had your appointment, and that there is an effective treatment, I'm sorry it has to be a hysterectomy. I hope you are feeling okay

TooT - Spiced carrot soup has ginger and garlic and cayenne and erm, carrot, if you fancy some more good circulation based recipes I think I could dig some out.

Lully - your toes does sound worrying Can you get to an out-of-hours place to get it checked?

Franny - OMG I remember very clearly the bump in the way feeling and with other dcs you end up bobbing up and down so often. You are going to have to force yourself to bend at the knees.

Boco - hope you are feeling better, its bad enough being ill and shivery without it bleedin snowing and making so much harder to get warm again.

FMV - your day sounds wicked! And much more worthy way of spending your sunday then the slobbing about we did.

Bbee - WT is ace, the answer is to erect a large stage to replace dinky pedastals. Then they'd be room for all the funny mners. Speaking of which where's 100x?

UR - Did they eat the cake? My cakes always used to collapse in embarassment as I took them out of the oven. I've found gently massaging their egos helps.

Good grief this post is going on forever. Got to go, sorry to all other 10/10ers I've missed

morning chaps
had monster lie in
I have a feeling we ate all the fruit, amd going on a scavenge

I have been thinking and although hugs and sympathy are nice, I think if I can only have ONE aspect of being helpful, then the letting me have lie ins / doing the hoovering / making dinners / earning money aspect is probably a lot more essential to me

ds decorating the easter tree yet AGAIN
our swedish friend gave him feathers with wire on them so they wrap round the twigs, apparently this is traditional in Sweden - looks lovely

like this

Good morning. DD2 has a tummy bug now, she was sick in her bed at 2am. This is clashing horribly with flu feelings. , Just about to put her in the bath for hair washing. Bit scared that's what I'm getting as not been able to eat since yesterday lunch.

Snow here again, it looks lovely as bright sunshine too.

Hope toes and fingers and bumps are all ok.

aw shit Boco, hope you don't get it
if you have been feeling lousy since yesterday perhaps you are having a mild version of it already? i don't think bugs usually take so long to come on, so hopefully it will not affect you in the same way as dd

Oh good, I hope not, sickness is horrid isn't it. I hope I'm only feeling sick after having to deal with it rather than having the same bug then.

oh boco - I have found in the past that the DCs tend to have a full blown short dramatic version (being sick into a ox of lego was a particular highlight) but I seem to have a low lying version that ticks on for a few days without the violent expulsions.

I hope that is the case for you.

(warm thoughts)

N.B. that was not a typo - we do store our lego in an ox a la Damien Hurst. We keep the knex in a ewe and I keep my earrings in a little stoat.

Sounds like it could be Bee. Am having hot and cold flushes and low back ache and feel generally a bit sick and headachey.

I read that as your child was sick in the leg of an ox and wandered how on earth that came about.

have you taken drugs?
hot water and lemon?

lol at Damien hirst storgae spaces...

our cat keeps throwing up on ds1's schoolbag. They are in sympatico...Ds calles the cat his 'brother-in-paw' which makes me giggle.

Can someone please write me 15 easter hunt clues please. I am worn out after yesterday and the boys are desperate to go egg-hunting. Sigh. brain won't work and I have a headache - possibly connected to too much port yesterday, which people kept bringing me in mugs to keep us warm on the stalls...

Lol Bbee

Oh poor Boco dd I hope she feels better soon.

I've sent dp out on a fruit forage to replace all the fruit I scoffed we were intending to give to ds

ah FMV sorry no brain for clues today. How about this site instead?

Hello, I am around Slur but not much at the minute, and not feeling very funny either, am feeling busy and put upon.

Had a strange visit to see BIL and SIL and their new baby yesterday. Oh dear. She is very weepy and keeping him in this little nursery room all day, and says he keeps crying and won't be put down and that he is 'wilful' and 'headstrong' Then bizarrely they are piping Mozart into this little room to which he is sent 24 hours a day.

All very weird. It's hard isn't it to tread the line between telling her she's doing marvellously and not to cry and it is all an awful shock to the system having a baby - and then wanting to say 'it's not an unreasonable request to want to be with you though is it? Why not drop the dark room with Mozart thing, and give up and sit on the sofa and feed and cuddle.'

So I did a bit of both. Oh dear. They had GF open on the table. . .

oh god oh 100 oh god
sorry but that's dreadful, I know we all make mistakes with our children along the way as they get older, but I don't understand how people can get it so staggeringly, disastrously wrong from day 1

oh god who can describe a newborn as wilful
I am sorry but they are fuckers

Franny! They're not fuckers - they are confused, and sad and frightened and mostly utterly devastated by the sheer level of demands of being a new parent.

Then though (to raise the fucker stakes) BIL said in the kitchen 'they don't give much back do they?' and I said 'what ever do you mean?' and he said 'well he just cries all the time and I'm just thinking is this it?'

Strange isn't it? I said to MIL 'why on earth is he kept in that room?' and she said 'The midwife told her to do it.'

FGS.

Shall we hatch a plan to liberate this baby from the dark room and the piped music?

I suggested to her she get a sling, that she give up trying to impose a routine, that she give in and watch telly and feed and eat biscuits and not worry so much. I did also say that I knew that hysterical feeling when you just need to stand outside on your own and wave your hands in the air.