Ask Not For Whom The Kale Curls - It Curls For Thee - 10 / 10 thread

[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

How are ill/injured children today? And how are grumpy adults ? Hope you are OK 100x. You were a wise help yesterday.

Take care, zippi - get a hat

I currently have the option of feeling almost psralysed with uselessness and inadequacy, or of getting on with things. I am going for no. 2, but the lid on no. 1 doesn't fit properly and it is emitting a chilling vapour.

Morning to all, healing thoughts to sick and broken kiddos. I'm glad you trusted your instincts bbbee; when I was little a friend of my mum's made her son walk all the way home from our house on what turned out to be a broken ankle because she didn't believe him when he said he'd hurt it I bet she still feels bad about that now!

Am eating porridge with apple, then going to shower, then heading to greengrocer's to stock up with F+V before I go to the library for the rest of the day. Took another carload of stuff over to the new house last night, only a few more days to go before we are actually in there I hope the paint fumes have dispersed by then.

afternoon all
apple, kiwis, raisins, blueberries, grapes
I reckon 4

had 2 apple juices last night am adding them to yesterday's total

have been to physio and been discharged as they can't do anything
the rotters
ah well

dp has half day off and has gone to collect ds from nursery. after lunch we are going to visit nappy lady and be confused by vast and expensive array of nappies.

berolina don't feel paralysed you will fold in

Zippi, hope you are ok. There has been lots of talk here recently about horrible things that happen to children and it has brought up lots of kmemories for me and, consequently, nightmares. Added to the insomnia, it is making me rather unpleasant to be around.

Bero, hope you feel better soon. Can you do something nice for yourself?

Anyway, bottom fully recovered I think, so that's good.

And I had breakfast today (oatmeal) so have turned over a new leaf.

Hooray for breakfast oatmeal

Am currently eating tomatoes (in sandwich), carrot, melon, strawberries, grapes, plums.

sigh. confusing people.

Isn't it, Banana?
Even more so than usual

I ma feeling much calmer now. So therefore much better.

All th epoorly 10/10 children - how are they all?

Ds1 can ride his bike!

I have been doing running
After ds1 became independent it seemed churlish to abandon him straight away, so I have been jogging round the cottages with him. But he is getting faster
He is now circling alone [proud]

Ds2 is bouncing after his 13-hour sleep

Lots of love to everybody, especially Bero and UR.

i had summer fruits and oats two apples and abanana and another bnanana a peach and a satsuma

i had a an accident gardening in midsomer well not gardening bu t mooching in their coach house pool pump room place where they keep the power tools

i had already been looking at the lawn mower to see what model it was and done my wee in a pot

and was examingin the strimmer to see what that was and contemplating getting it down to look at when a chain saw fell on my head

as they are awya on holiday for a fortnight and no one knows i was there i was quite lucky to just get away with a bump and a cut on my eye socket

zippi i am so sorry and ohmigawd about the chainsaw accident
has anybody helped you since?

you really sound like you need your brow soothed generally

i am ok

i didnt know what hit me tho

they might have had to look all round the village for me if my kids reported me missing ...probably be sometime before anyone noticed

tho of course my car was parked on the drive

i think i was pretty lucky actually

this one lol

Zippi, I tell you to look after yourself and you go juggling chainsaws!
Please, please can you actually look after yourself?

god zippi I was commiserating in a slightly amused way on other thread, sorry to hear you are injured
I presumed from fact you were posting that nothing too bad had happened

UR that sounds horribly distressing
have you anyone you can talk to about it? it sounds like something you could do with proper help for
of course I may not know what I am talking about
but upsetting stuff emerging from the past is very nasty and not always easy to deal with by yourself
say if we can help also

i just have a bump so i am fine and hoping for no balck eye

im not sure whether things from the past are better brought up or left behind..but if they are coming up then maybe time to try and address them and lay them to rest

i did that a bit when i was ill before

and i think it was possibly the time as it had emerged

that's a big chainsaw

things emerging can be so testing.. sometimes it's better to squish and sometimes better to work on.. but so hard to know which and whne the time is right

hope you are ok ur
and bero too

Exciting news, Toot We should have a [proud mummy] emoticon.

OUch zippi, please be careful. I don't like the idea of you lurking in people's gardens eyeing up power tools.

I do need proper help for my 'stuff' - I know it has casued me no end of trouble but I just can't do it now. I have too much other stuff going on. You know, life and all that. Aah well, they say things are sent to try us...

Hello all,

Not sure where to post what now, with this thread schism.

UR and Bero & Zippi - you all need to look after yourself lots, sendng lots of positive (and anti klutz - Zippi) vibes your way.

Have just had call from Sis, she is feeling very maudlin and woe is me. She's single, mid 30's, high powered job, has fluey type virus, and has been laid up for a few days, and was moaning that if anything happened to her, her family would not know, because we don't keep in touch. (bollocks,I call once or twice a week, as does my dad)

Sorry about your sister, wombling. She sounds like she's feeling very sorry for herself. Is she very lonely?

wombling oh dear wallowing self pity is very hard to deal with in any constructive way. I get like that with reasonable regularity and nothing anyone does really seems to help. Dp being very very kind and patient eventually does the trick, sometimes.

UR yes I see what you mean. I am guessing one session with someone wouldn't really help and it is very time consuming isn't it?
This is not the blatant attempt to change the subject that it may seem to be but when are you planning on doing more snogging? [voyeur]

ds is playing the milk bottles. He is quite talented.

Sometimes we all wallow but it isn't fair to blame others. I hope your sister feels better about things soon, wombling.

lol @ change of subject. I don't have plans for more snogging. Yet. We talked for an hour last night. He's a bit too perceptive though - I think he notices more than I would like him too. But he's nice about it. Will keep you posted on the snogging, don't worry!

Thanks guys, she is very lonely UR, you are right, she is fiercely independent, and opinionated, as well as hugely kind and talented, and although she wouldn't admit is is desperate for a partner and a family. She hasn't had a long term partner since her fiancee jilted her a few months after we got maried, which is about 13 years ago now. It is very tragic in a way, she would make a wonderful mother, and needs a partner to smooth out her prickly bits, if you know what I mean? I am s desperately sad for her, and everytime I open my mouth, manage to put my foot in it. Don't really know what to do for the best really.

Does anyone know a single, confident man in his 30's, looking for a beautiful, intelligent woman (and an amazing cook) to have babies with?

Oh, she sounds a lot like me, Wombling. And if you do find such a man, I'd love to know where. I am sure the Do Not Exist. But we live in hope...