Cantaloupe, cantaloupe! Will you eat the bad mango? - 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.

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You're doing good Pink

Oh dear Boco, that is NOT good at all. It's tricky if they don't want to tell teachers, isn't it? I mean, sometimes it does make things worse but it's usually short term worse and things need to be nipped in the bud really.
Witter witter.

Yes Tatties, I will try and go to bed but oh dear have just remembered I have a bread dough that needs baking.

Tatties, does it help if you do lots of fun things? Reading together in bed in the middle of the day? Messy painting (possibly outside)?
Picnics in the park? Um.....
I mean, sometimes adding a novel twist to things is very good for mood.

Yes, and it's tricky because it doesn't look like bullying as they're mostly nice to her - but it's a very controlling nice, with penalties. They're both very insecure little girls with scary mothers. dd wants to be friends with them, I just think she doesn't know how to negotiate it all. Girls are funny and difficult at this age.

oh no @ controlling nice with penalties
god they can be swine can't they

nests for everyone!

I don't think we needed boot camp so much as duvet camp this week tbh

TooT they are lovely ideas Sometimes I forget to make time for doing things like that.

Oh yes, duvet camp, definitely

I would tell the teacher without a shadow of a doubt and make it quite plain that the children must not know something has been said.

It is not acceptable. Our teacher is very good and notices all sorts of things and pairs children up differently for tasks and just GETS the issues ifswim.

Send her here. She can hang out with mini Guad and chums, they are doing a sound of music play every lunchtime atm. Bruises on cheeks are not be put up with. Mind you, dd's best friend gave her a wart on purpose, but that resulted in two trips to the teacher and one late night chat to a mother and much apology.

It does sound like claasic girl behavour though. One friend is always up in arms because her dd's best friend loves her so much that occasionly she nips her really hard and kicks her under the table and pulls her hair if she talks to so and so. Sigh. Its is hard isn't it.

my posts sound at odds

classic behaviour, but still to be dealt with I mean

Boco, how grr about DD, that controlling nice is so difficult to see through if you are the subject of it, hope the bruise gets better quickly. The penalty thing is horrid!

Tatties, please don't think I am doing well at this parenting lark, I have only managed to keep a lid on it this week, out of almost 4 years

I am finding I just have to keep reminding myself that today I will not shout and will count to ten before I act. I am still not perfect, but it is helping.

TooT, go to bed

TooT can you give me your address for chard seeds & jeans? Message me on FB?

I have your e-mail somehwere but must to bed now.

Avi I have started on some agnus castus today. As I am pre-menstrual now i am hoping by next month, if it's going to make a difference, I will notice it then...will let you know.

MrsC green suits you. Very of camping at Stiffkey. Have a lovely time

how do you know green suits me, FK?

Huge at Stiffkey Marsh, MrsC - I spent every summer crabbing on the bridge there.

Sorry about littleboco - children can be so hurtful to each other

I had a fabulous salad made entirely of homegrown leaves & herbs [smug] and half a packet of Jaffa cakes

good morning
hope everyone well and full of the joys of fibre
large odd melon, apple, persimmon, raisins, grapes, banana = 4.5

am going to try to go into town this morning; ds at nursery and window cleaner coming round and he sniggers at pregnant women

there's a man round the corner who does it as well
"still waddling, then?"

because pregnant women are so inherently hilarious, aren't they?
some kind of fucking misogyny going on there
"haha you've got really fat and you can't help it and now you walk funny and anyway it makes me feel a bit strange because I know it's going to come out of your vagina and so I am going to laugh like a schoolboy"

aw Boco
It never ends, the school stuff, does it? One little problem goes and another one replaces it...

Franny, I'd be tempted to stage a false labour with the window cleaner, just to see his face when you ask him if he's got enough hot water to spare. And some towels. And a knife for the umbilical cord...etc etc.
Wnacker.

MrsC, the green dress sounds nice and you do suit green, though how you can talk about heffalump legs when you are slim and lissom as a willow I do not know....

thanks franny

wow that guy has got my back up...its only because of that that i got irritated

fruit this am

with oats

Agree with FMF Franny, that would get the wind up that f*er!

Zippi, hats off to you, I think he should refund or replace asap.

Was away to my bed last night rather suddenly, as I got a splitting headache, so forgot to report F&V consumption from yesterday for Boot Camp

Lunch: Chicken Mango and spinach sandwich, dried mango, lemon water (2)

Dinner: Pasta with mushrooms, onions and courgettes, watercress and lambs lettuce, Pear tart (3.5)

Breakfast today: mango, apple,kiwi, passionfruit, rasins and pineapple with yoghurt and small amount of spelt flakes (4.5)

i had lots of problems with dd2 and friends she seemed from about 6 to be in a really awful group of girls who kept blanking each other...she did it equally

and in fact it just carried on

i think you do need to keep trying to resolve things or it just gets habitual

I was all fired up to ask to see the teacher this morning, but got there and 3 little girls rushed up to dd and hugged her, picked her up, told her they loved her and ran off holding her hand. It just felt a bit odd to say to the teacher 'see those girls lavishing love on dd, they are being really mean.' But, also know that when I pick her up there will be stories about how whichever one she sits with will be nice to her and the other two will tell her they hate her and push her. I might wait for the next concrete incident and jump on it straight away.

Raisins.

is raisins an expletive or...

it's a very polite one if so.

oh ARTICHOKE HEARTS

mmm yes it works quite well.