I love rocket and roll, put another lime in the fruitbowl, baby - 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

Oh very good TooT. I am doing that thing where I'm meant to be packing but MNing in a pointless fashion instead.

Glad your Dad is coming over UR.

Hello TooT, and stop making me hungry

Apple x2, kiwi, banana, various veg (yellow pepper, courgette, mushroom) with rice, OJ, potatoes-in-their-skins, salad with mixed leaves and mixed seeds, cherry tomatoes. 9?

oh Toot look at you with your fruity vegocity
night bero, hi ur thanks for encouragement

trip was fine, schools and house sorted out

but v sad and shocked at what other 10ers going through

how is the eye Toot

UR I'll be in your boot camp i will be clutter free and ready to cook

emptying house at car boot sale on Sat

where's zippi, did she go to Wales?

Bero cor blimey o riley you're all at it good at proper

will post v quietly then slip away
everything is sorted for the move and it's going to be an amazing place to live
am afraid I'm getting a bit stressed with the organisation of it but it's a bit pathetic while everyone else has major crises
we just have to make sure we see all the relatives this summer
so disorganised I haven't even told most of my friends yet
i mean here, yes but not everywhere else
anyway goodnight all and thinking of you very much UR
and hope boco and her dd are ok tonight
x

Stuffit - when will you move? I've been wondering about you.

Hope everyone is ok. I have a day off today but need to do lots of dull stuff. Man has invited me over to his place for the entire weekend and I'm not sure if two nights is a bit much. He did promise to put me on the train home if I want to leave.

I went singing tonight. It was lovely. There were grown ups there.

hello all
by "here" i meant "here in b e l g i u m" not here here!
anyway it's august
a whole weekend sounds enticing plus i like his acceptance
that you might want to go home.. sounds like you are v comfortable with him..

btw i'm sorry to bring it up but was thinking of you last night and had a thought which might shock you.. sorry if it does.. would publicity help? pls ignore it if you want to but it came to me in a DM type flash

morning.
I can't face the washing up.
Now I know why I don't like hosting parties. All the effort for a a couple of hours. And then hours tidying up afterwards.
We had a perfectly pleasant evening.
But not riotous
And my 2 best friends did not warm to each other. Which was awkward. Clash Of The Virgos.
Ho hum. And period has arrived again.
And my sister is arriving this evening with plans for a wild night out...

Good news about Boco and Bocolette.

Morning all.

Glad you had a good evening, FMF, if not riotous. I have had that friends-not-getting-on thing quite a lot, as I tend to have friends scattered around all walks of life rather than 'groups' - at one party once a full-scale political row blew up But the weekend before last everyone got on .

My left eye is dry and very slightly painful again. The first couple of times I thought I was getting conjunctivitis, but I don't reckon it can be that. Could it be an eyesight problem? I can see fine really, but know if by some impossibility I decided to learn to drive, I would probably not pass the sight test. Maybe I should get checked? Have always hankered a bit after glasses.

Pumpkin-seed bread. We have run out of fruit , apart from some pears which still need to ripen.

I had friends for dinner once and they did not get on At All. It was awful. One couple turned up with one bottle of wine and the other arrived with four and that was a bit awkward, well they seemed to think it was.

Then they argued all evening. My friend argued with my other friends husband and it was very, well I know because I am a pilot, well I know because my brothers been a pilot for twenty years and so. There was a lot of me springing up with a forced smile singing, coffee?

Actually I don't know if we've had people since then, well people who don't know each other. The funny thing is they all bumped into each other the next morning in the B&Q carpark, really hungover and made polite conversation about fence panels.

No food as yet.

sorry, that was a very dull anecdote. You wonder if there is anythiing more dull than a dull dinner party but of course there is the anecdote about the dull dinner party.

We are going to the sea life centre this afternoon. I expect I will feel sad about the sea horses and then we will buy a rubber and some chips and come home.

[sidles in] Morning, I can't keep up with this thread.

I'm not too good at the healthy eating bit either. I had a burger last night, although it did have a few leaves on it and a tomato. I also had a bit of fruit yesterday, and my tomato plants are starting to flower. My conservatory smells lovely.

Sorry to hear some poeple are having a hard time at the moment. There seems to be a lot of people struggling right now.

I have chooclate sprinkled with crystalised rose petals, chocolates infused with whisky-soaked raisins, and, er, 3 different chocolate cakes! (and some lemon cheesecake)
Ho hum......

fmf i saw the word lemon there
it's all good for your serotonins or something
mrs c I loved your story and topped off with "fence panels" -- very Victoria Wood!

i just have dinner parties where the guests get on famously then phone me afterwards and say things like "and whatever was her husband wearing?

i'm looking at a banana

yes, and raisisn. and erm, rose petals...

rose petals are very nutritious

sorry have vicariously eaten all your chocolate
i need the energy
i've left you the lemon and the raisin

the sugar preserves them, in fact intensifies the nutrients like some magic cryogenic multiplyer. Uh huh. Yes it does.

disclaimer - teething babies make for addled brains

yy MrsC, very good! Now say that again, with conviction, when faced with cynical Frannzy with hands on hip and ''this better be good'' look on face....

I will have the mad-eyed look of the sleep deprived

she will agree with me even though the Frannometer screams no

just found out 2 scorpios had a head-to-head as well at last night's gathering, lol...