Shiny happy peapods laughing - 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

We used to call begger my neighbour strip jack naked or beat your neighbours out of doors.

Might try DS with it - we have been playing Uno recently (and somehow he keeps winning, without me letting him win. I am not sure I am happy at being beaten by a 4 year old ).

hello chaps

Just back from the CO..he is marvellous

I am wanting to do this with ds
www.fairylandtrust.org

that looks lovely LL i am a sucker for these kind of things

i am mning from the spare house

the wireless stretches to here

so i am procrastinating again

it is ;lovely in here there is sunshine and it is bright

unlike my house

i am jeal;ous

My mother was so anal she used to make us say 'Please may I have all your threes' etc when we played 'Beat your neighbour out of doors'.

Underrated I think the blender is the way to go. I thought the very same thing myself last night lying in bed waiting to go to sleep (which is where I solve most of my problems) I will have to start making myself a shake every morning with spirulina in it.

I'm sorry to report that most of my meals nowadays involve tinned sardines, garlic, liver, steak, kale...I am below the intervention level for anaemia now due to the chemotherapy and I'm on eprex injections despite my best efforts.

can you take that spatone stuff anorak

i ahve finished the insualtion in the eaves sop now have itchy eyes and lungs

i acn now either take off some filthy clothes and go swimming or

plough on and oil the walnut worktops

or get into my house i try and make it look marginally decent ie clear the mess off my bed for bf coming

I asked the glowy lady about cooking with spirulina and she made a face
she didn't know whether it would affect it or not but she thought it would be revolting - and she is hardcore - so anorak don't do it! she suggested putting it in a yogurt

Lully ds and I did fairyland trust last year - MrsC knows some of them - they are near here again this year but unfortunately at a festival 30 miles away, on my due date I don't reckon we will make it

ds arrived home safe and well and having had a great time. One child fell in the pond but it was not him. He was so tired when he got in he had to go and hide under the table for a while

my lovely big boy is back from his week away with school.
DS1 dissolved into tears on weds and said: ''I just miss hime so much''
And he wrote ds1 a letter saying ''Dear brother, I hope you are having a grat time. but not for me, i miss you too much''

Anyway, just ds1 showed me ds2s letter with pride and i noticed he had written underneath the letter ''and I miss yo tou''

dissolves into sobs

They scrap thw whole time BTW....

His washing smelt indescribably erm, funky? Musty?, boy-like? With added mud.

eeek! I did a link without meaning to! There is no link! Ignore it..

i think this was the link you meant.

Hello

I have a shopping delivery and a veg box to unpack and supper to cook and I'm sitting here doing none of it

Haven;t read thread, back later

hello. tomatoes
anorak sorry it's not all working out
can you just do a paste and eat it in a spoonful like castor oil
just getting it down you? or would it make you feel sick

lolololol

but..

I have a food problem / query
on Fridays I always have lunch with a friend and our dc
I work most of the morning and afternoon and don't get time to have snacks and am STARVING at lunchtime, but don't actually get to eat that much because a) we are chatting b) we haven't that long for lunch and c) it is embarrassing to sit in front of someone and basically stuff your face

so when i get home I have to virtually inhale cake just to remain conscious

however today I ate by myself and had what i wanted which was 2 sandwiches, 2 M+S salads, a yogurt and a very nice chocolate ginger biscuit
how can I get more food into me when in company without horrifying friend?

I do know what you mean, when I was last pg, I would buy a beautuful sandwich when the trolley came round at 10.30 and eat it there and then, while all the non-have-never-been-pg women watched me in bewildered horror. Then a scone . Then go out for a baked potato fr lunch. Or two!. I nearly developed an eating disorder, stuffing my face in the loos as I was so hungry and I got such wierd looks and comments

Can't you just explain to her?

no I think I am too embarrassed
also it would really mean I couldn't take part in conversation as I would just be eating the entire time
she might be disappointed
well she MIGHT

Can't you do nodding and stuffing, and then ask questions between mouthfuls and then go through the whole nodding and stuffing routine again?

Did he actually wear all his clothes FMV? When ds1 went away last year he came back with a sack of clean clothes except for the exceptionally dirty ones he was wearing.

yes, maybe I can find food that is less chewy also

maybe I just talk too much?

lol 100x. There were a lot of clean underpants and socks....

The smeggy clothes had infected everything in the rucksack though.

I appear to have lost an expensive piece of electrical equipment which I need for my sports job tomorrow

ds is hunting for it with a metal detector

It's going to have to be one thing or the other I think. Personally I would value food over chat. Actually, you could eat and write down what you want to say? That might work.

I would get her started on something you know she will go on and on about so you can stuff while she talks and you can nod and mmmmhhhmmm

And then write down queries or you could prepare them beforehand on index cards and hold them up.

And what did you say?

Do you think he meant that?

No!

Now that's interesting isn't it?

I thought so!

I can't believe that.

Could all be enormous fun. Especially if you get your index cards mixed up.

I think you underestimate the power of mime. You can eat while doing the trapped in the glass box thing, and she can talk about how good you are at it.

she is too polite to go on and on and on
unlike me

Ah. Right. So the friend has nothing to do with this has she?

Your question is: how can I stuff my face and talk at the same time?

Answer: Index cards.