We eat fruit. It is nice. 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.

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Gosh Franny That's bloody good for this time in the morning!

I have had erm. An apple.

I'm pleased to hear about your compost, had it been a bit a whiffy of late? There's so many prolefic veggers its tricky to keep up.

And yes isn't amazing how much bulk plastic takes up

it was horrific Slur
I don't go near it [fear] but dp kept saying worried things about it and eventually got it all out and turned it about and added LOTS of paper to it
it smelt like festival toilets on the day you go home, I kid you not
all fresh and warm now according to dp

am here in pouring rain in d e l h i and sneaking time online while dh at office

hope everyone and dcs are well, will seek to catch up next week but fear I have no hope at all

but good luck with the job zippi
six weeks to go fran hope your pelvis is standing up to the strain

eating own body weight in f and v due to going veg for the week

have a lovely rest of week all xx

i got up at5 today to try and get organised to watch the footie tonight and go to college first and do some work

i am going to watch it with bf so have to race up the m40 tonight

i have had a huge portion of summer fruits so that 3

ew at festival toilets, do your neighbours mind? I'm not sure I prefer the term fresh and warm either!

Raspberries, strawberries, mango, banana, passion fruit kiwi and lime salad with yoghurt and it was very nice indeed. I have had to reduce the amount of grapefruit I was eating, I think it was giving me a stomach ache. They are quite acidic.

What a hissy spitty place mnet was last night, I don't normally get involved but it was excessive and quite funny. Full moon though.

Has been hissy for a while. I can't quite keep up, every time I come on someone else is falling out with someone else who has or who has not name changed.

We too are preparing for football. Everyone v. excited. Except now dh has to go to London and won't be back until the second half.

ooooh Stuffit - you are THERE.

How exciting.

Tell us all about it.

where is stuffit?

ooh, you are in D E L H I, and I missed it with the spaces

is it hot

does it smell nice

give us colours, smells, people, noise, come on

it is surprisingly easy to become quite obsessive about composts. My dp also recently turned it all out and mixed it up. Muttering about the inclusion of dubious weeds I may have accidental thrown that way.

He often adds torned up egg cartons to the caddy before adding in too. somehow it has become 'his' thing really, like the garage. And cleaning up disgusting cat poo. Very traditional roles in this house

OUr compost does smell lovely though.

where

i am giving up trying to do my college work in the next 15 minutes

i think i shall just have to say i have done bugger all and will eventually get it done
like next week

i am telling myself to go to wales on my own and cart all my work with me and do it all

possible?

no internet connection

no house stuff

but a bit lonely

Yes that would be lonely posssibly. But I suppose maybe more focused?

Mind you when I work I need someone to talk to and offload to about it at regular intervals otherwise I get stuck and end up going round in circles,

crap have to go after doing lots of emails to schools

it is SSSSSSOOOOO exciting and there is a mango tree in the garden of our house to be!!!!!!!!

can't wait to tell you about the food and everything else but how are you mrs carrot, I have to go but I hope you are well convalesced now

also want to know about the hissiness (of course)

xx speak soon

bye i am off

A mango tree? In your garden? How splendid. You lucky thing, you will be able to pick them for breakfast every morning. I am recovering very well thanks, almost feel back to my old self.

Zippi - are you off to Wales now?

A mango tree? How apt I am very , we don't seem to have got round to planting any edible garden stuff this year. I must investigate the state of my compost. I have been composting for a year or so but have no idea how it's getting on.

Banana and blueberry smoothie (home made)

erm, that's it so far

Has zippi gone to Wales? Wouldn't it be lovely to be able to do something like that on a whim? [wistful]

Glad to hear you are feeling so much better MrsC

Wow at mango tree in the garden, how lovely!

All the bitchy threads yesterday ended up in spectacle chat. Sums up mnetters - fiercely angry about someing but failing eyesight means they can't see what.

Wednesday is my worst day because of driving in the morning so I dread it and then it's over and I feel wobbly legged and not very competent at anything. I did manage to parallel park today, but reversing into supermarket bays was bloody bad. The more the instructor gets frustrated the worse I get at it. I need some kind of zen buddhist as as instructor really, someone who will gently levitate beside me emitting calm. Instead of saying 'Boco look, we cannot shilly shally round Morrisons car park all day girl! get a bleedin' move on!'

Oh am jealous. How wonderful. I wish we had jobs where someone in HQ told us we had to go and live somewhere abroad for a bit. That'd be good, then it wouldn't be our responsibility and if the raft up the Amazon idea wasn't our responsibility then our children couldn't sue us.

I really want to go and live abroad. I might make a plan. Shall I?

I notice none of you care about the fact that apparantly I have to send ds1 to secondary school. I thought I'd get lots of faces. MrsC, come on you have a 10 y-o. Are you scared?

I've made a list. I'm going to buy a pomegranate, melons, nectarines/peaches, apples. We are going to have a fruity football night.

Mine are much too little for concerns about secondary, but I'll be fraught on your behalf if you like 100. It'll be good practise for September 2009 when dd goes to school.

I added raisins, banana, kidney beans and tomatoes to my measley apple this morning.

I am also jealous of garden mango trees. Do we know if there are cunting?

Boco, pooy you - is it too late to look around for an instructor that is more soothing?

Oooh tiger - go and check it might be all brown and warm and ready and stuff!

there they're

Oddly I often make that mistake when posting, but never ever when writing.....

Yes, I am anxious about it too, 100x. We start to look round the schools in September I think, though there isn't much choice for us really.

There's the fab Roman Catholic that no-one can get into, the crap one and the better one. That's about it. I worry for ds1, he likes school and is popular and so on but my god it is a minefield isn't it? I guess we learnt life lessons there and all that but I went to an enormous high school, 2000 + pupils. I think at least two hung themselves while I was there. I went to the crap one.

He likes it socially but finds the work hard. Who knows how it will pan out with the extra help. I am Still Waiting for the dslexia tests. We are going to do them privately if nothing comes soon.

Can we morph them then somehow? DS1 finds the work easy, but the social stuff hard.

Let's get together and blend MrsC.

Oh yes, the tests. Are you waiting on an Ed Psych appointment? Tell you what, at this rate BBee will be qualified and she can do them.

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