Riders on the Corn - 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 god avi you can't
can you?

Camping??
blimey avi I've just come back from nursery run minus waterproofs & umbrella
It's hideous out there & am eating a whole orange & lemon yoghurt as prize for battling with the elements

Avi, if neither of you ring, will you go? Are you both worried about appearing less hardy than the other? I have visions of you erecting tents in pissing rain and howling gales with fixed grins.

UR - the toilet on the table is a truly original touch

UR, you can get good information from veggie websites. Vegetarian society maybe?
Vegans survive perfectly well so there's no reason veggies shouldn't.
Don't forget there is protein in whole grains. And lots of things [vague]

This was turning into a long, wittery post so I deleted some of it.

We have frequent discussions about drawing on paper (DD and me that is).

Thinking of you in the wind and rain avi.

DD drawing on paper that is. I have learned how to do that now.

We are eating raspberries.

DD drawing on paper that is. I have learned how to do that now.

We are eating raspberries.

Who has raspberries from their garden? I am .

Oh avi
gulp

I am trying to remedy one of ds's pebbles
He couldn't fit TITANIA on the chosen pebble & went to nursery very upset as it is RUINED.

ho hum

Wthe forecast for the entire summer seems to be heavy showers so as someone who spent the entirte weekend in watewrproofs and with camping and an outdoor all-day mini-fest next weekend too, I guess one just lerns to put up with it - tis better than the alternative - a whole summer of being stuck in the house

Good luck Avi - you are a braver woman than I am

We had a party for dd's birthday at the weekend. It was fantastic, we had a lovely time, but I need to offload somewhere about all the plastic crap we now have that we (well dh and I anyway) didn't want... I need to rant about it somewhere where I won't be called ungrateful (I was so called on MN last year for complaining about something dd was given when she turned 3)... why do people buy such rubbish for children? Argghhh. The other parents must find me very odd, I don't spend £15 on overpackaged tat for their children's birthdays, I spend a fiver on a lovely book or similar. DH and I purposefully didn't buy much for dd this year as we saw this coming. She got a bike (free - passed over from next door who have an older girl who now has a bigger bike), we got a helmet for it, some new knickers (yawn ), a couple of books and a lunch bag for school. From the party she got 2 barbies, 1 bratz and about fifty squizzilion My Little Farking Ponies - each thing came with hair clips, brushes, shite, tat and more plastic. To be fair she got some lovely presents too, a couple of puzzles and a bug house that she can paint herself, but the vast majority of it was horrible.

Next year there will be no big party , partly because I don't want yet more rubbish in the house. Is there a polite way of asking for less plastic for birthday presents? Unfortunately dd's friends' parents on the whole tend to be a non-lentil-weavery bunch and probably wouldn't understand and would think me strange/miserable/mean to dd.

Tiger...we have just left a book list at Waterstones
Anyone who wants to buy a preasent can choose ONE from the list

I cant be doing with plastic tat either

a lot of the boys at nursey seem to be playing with power rangers/spiderman etc
Ds wouldn't have a clue about any of that & I really dont want to be given a big pile for his birthday

oh TF, I empathise...half the stuff is broken within 2 mins of coming out of the stupid over-packaged wrappings.

As they get older, people ask what they're into. So you can smile and say ''books'' or ''craft stuff''. I love it when people give WHSmiths vouchers etc (as the children forget they have them and I can buy books for me, mmmmwwwah ha ha)

Last birthday, some non-lentil weavers were bemused as i said please don't worry about presents, but ds2 would love to come to play at your house one day instead....and then it kickstarted his social life a little

Oh I like the Waterstones book list idea, and the playdate idea, I knew the veggers would be good at this sort of thing.

In all honesty it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if children turned up without a present. I don't think dd would notice tbh.

Thankfully after 4 years of being asked not to overindulge dd at Christmas/birthdays the IL's have finally got the message and bought her a couple of small things to open and a nice cheque for her savings account . A couple of the mums put a fiver in her card instead of bringing a present - one was apologising profusely for "not making much effort" but I was delighted and I told her so. She is going to need money when she is 18, not crapola shite when she is 4.

The only time dd drew on something she shouldn't have was the crayon-on-the-sofa incident. She tried to blame it on the cat

I was far more cross that she tried to lie her way out of it (a trait she seems to have inherited from her father ) than I was about the original transgression. We had a chat about it. She has never drawn on inappropriate items since, but blaming things on the cat happens all the time [sigh]