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

I'm craving greenery too, the spring greens that I will get with my chilli fish and jasmine rice after tiny weeny dunky starters for two.

DS1 is at a sleepover so we are hoping to get the others in bed pronto and we may even get to watch two dvds. Oh the luxury. I fancy Betty Blue and Brief Encounter. And I haven't drunk a thing all week and am really looking forward to my prossecco.

I have promised dh I will not log in all evening though, so bon soir veggers.

Have deleted all now, thanks Fran - have now garnered sufficient stroking and soothing from veggers and other assorted weirdos to feel a bit calmer.

Large glass of red is helping too - in that mysterious way it always does on a come -down time of trouble. Why do I always leave it so late....

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oh I LOVE Brief Encounter ooh I want to watch it now
"I'm a heppily merried woman"

OB hope you have a better and more chilled evening than your day

zippi hellooooo and welcome back

large plate of salad: leaves, an avocado, red pepper, cucumber, tomato, carrot. I reckon 4 or 5

just got an email from a friend saying "congratulations is it a girl or a boy?" I explained I wouldn't know for hopefully about 5 weeks. She was confused as she was out last night with my ex's best friend, who said she had heard from my ex, that he had heard from an estranged friend of mine, that I had had the baby. I am not in touch with any of these people at all. I am feeling

I just finished a very good teenage novel called 'Before I Die'. It was an excellent read.

We have been to hospital (all okay, next visit in 4-5 weeks to remove stitches, and he can now swim! ) and to the 100x's park (hot and tiring) and to the museum of east Asian art where we made model dragon boats.
We were out for over 10 hours and I spent a lot of that carrying dd2. In fact, on thw way back from the bus stop, I had dd2 on my back and ds2 on my front.
My legs ache and I need to sleep.

Piece of really weird mushroom and sweetcorn pie that was strangely tangy.
Ratatouille.
Bit of apple.

Dd2 has just called from the bathroom, " I'm putting soap on my nip-ples,".

oh hooray @ all being ok

Good news TooT.

fruit fest this afternoon - apple, plums, apricots, pear. dh's homemade pizza for dinner* with tomatoes, roasted red pepper, courgette, mushroom.

I have a tickly and slightly asthmatic cough.

*I cannot decide between tea, dinner and supper. My parents called it tea, but I was a snob in my youth and started calling it dinner at some point. Then I discovered that an informal evening meal is supposed to be supper. Somehow all three sound wrong now. My instinct is to revert to tea, but this will confuse the hell out of dh (when he hears me say it to dses. We speak German to each other and have a not dissimilar disagreement about the German terms).

Read this extremely odd piece about 5 a day

"If I had to find ways to combine the recommended five into something interesting it would take all my time and rob cooking for my family of any vestige of joy. And bear in mind, I have time to cook and shop and do it for a living.

It seems counterintuitive but 5-a-day is effectively unworkable if you buy ingredients and cook daily from scratch"

what????
I wish someone sensible would go on and post a comment
I can't get my head round how idiotic I think the piece is, so I won't try

ooh I'm an auntie again
dp's sister just had her baby, a little boy

Ahh lovely Franny, congratulations

Glad things are on the mend TooT

Bero I have always said dinner for evening meal, and supper for snack before bed. But that conflicted with what people say where I am from: so lunch is dinner and dinner is tea. I am ok with evening meal being interchangeably dinner or tea but I just can't call it supper (can you tell I have thought long and hard about this?!)

Ooh congratulations Franny

I am going to be an auntie for the first time in the next month or so (SIL's first baby is due on 21st June ).

congratulations fran

the guardian is so crap nowadays
I was born onto it and grew up with it

but now it's just on an anti anything at all natural mission, has been for ages

that piece just doesn't surprise me at all

And I love Brief Encounter

And also recently finished Before I Die

I am now Going to Bed

ooh forgot to say hello zippi missed you
off in Wales jumping ditches
that sounds v bracing

well night idris i am going to fill my car with boxes of crapola

I grew up with supper-as-snack-before-bed too. I have a friend who is English but grew up in Germany and so tends to eat something cold (bread, cheese, salad) in the evening, as is traditional here*, and says 'supper' - that I think suits it, but it doesn't work somehow when you're having something cooked.
(*This is where our German disagreement comes from. dh says 'Abendbrot', meaning literally 'evening bread', and I think that's rather stupid when it is not bread but actually pizza, or jacket potatoes, or risotto. - Sorry for asterisk thing again)

Congratulations Auntie Franny

WTF? I would suspect 5-a-day is actually a great deal easier if you cook from scratch.

I got a weekend Guardian out of old habit when in the UK last month and the ponciness rather blew me over. There was something in the family section about garden toys for a 'tiny' garden - which was something like 8ft x 20 million ft - on a small budget - wooden M&S skittles were about the cheapest item.

thank you avi they are going with repeated exhortations from me to take care of ds1 in the heat. Am none too happy but dh is determined. He grew up more or less on the airbase and has very happy memories of it, which I understand are powerful but it is so difficult sometimes to get my head round the fact that all these memories unfolded in more or less the heart of a really really dreadful regime. He was 14 when the wall came down and the shock of it really did affect him. He understands now how dreadful it all was and is a firm democrat but it really wasn't easy for him to have to completely reassess his childhood - the process was still very much underway when we met and we have often talked for hours about it all. I OTOH often got impatient with him because my childhood was frequently unhappy and my relationship with my parents has been turbulent, so I am used to looking critically at my past.

I'll think about the press. I wouldn't really know where to start though. I would rather the Consulate were able to help. Stuffit, I didn't think you were suggesting you sell my story Thank you for all your offers of help.

Have you all gone mad? The emoticons are the same as always. Why are you seeing luminous colours?

Glad to see people coming back. Sorry you sound sad, zippi.

Brief Encounter is wonderful. I watched it a couple of weeks ago and really had to concentrate on the accent. I think I have been over here far too long. I know I have.

Bero, I never know what to call tea/ supper/ dinner either. At least lunch is lunch.

Congrats Franny (on nephew, not fleas)

I quite like Airshows. I don't know why because I am totally against them really - I am appalled at the cost, the waste, the fuel and the glorification of war. But I am often mesmerised by the planes.

What can I do with a tin of black-eyed peas?

UR are they the same as black eyed beans? I mix them with baked beans and eat them on toast
or just have them with hummus and salad, in a pitta or with new potatoes or something