The Fruits of our Labour? 10/10 thread, all fruitmunchers welcome......

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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

Yes, I think you'd better. Though bear in mind part of the look on the first one is her two-tone hair thing. So make sure you talk about that - unless you are planning on dying your hair too - because it might need more layers?

I bet it'll suit you.

Right, am going to make him a cheese sandwich and bite my tongue.

Thank you. You are all very nice and sympathetic and not judgemental. It's really reassuring and helpful and just nice. Thanks.

Oh heck, dd2 has been sharing her ice lolly with the cat.

haircut one, Toot, it's the one I imagine that you have anyway.

What a trial, 100, sounds exhausting. I have no good advice, if mine don't want to go out they grumble a bit and I say tough, you'll like it when we're there. I don't know what I'd do if they properly put their foot down about going. Sounds like you had some success though.

Roast chicken with roasted veg quinoi and harrissa paste, basil tomato salad, nettle and weirdy leaf salad, sun dried tomatoes, olives and tzatsiki. It was very nice. Dh's brother was here from Thailand. He is buying land and growing trees out there or something. When I said I was a bit tired as ds2 woke up a lot and is spotty and cross, he said, make sure you don't have any more then.

I am trying not to eat toblerone.

Franny , I have just realised that in my attempt not to say anything annoying like, 'still with us then?', I have said nothing at all!! I have been thinking about you very much.

HC1 TooT.

I seriously injured my typing claws in my cycling mission.

Got to Bath in record time, hooned it over my handlebars face first onto road forgetting about newly serviced brakes.

Have no skin on bottom of hands.

AND rode back to Bristol [double hard bastard emoticon]

Have beer with straw now though as can't use hands at all.. Except for vital MN work.

Sorry if you're all having terrible days, babies, stuff but am not going to be avaialbale to dispense bad advice as am going to be even more self absorbed than usual.

You can stroke me if you like.

Update: is that ds2 came and found me and took me up to dh's study and said that he was twirling on the chair earlier, and he knocked against a desk and the picture that was standing on the desk fell over and the glass had smashed. Then he got frightened about getting into trouble and so went mad. Well he didn't say he went mad, but I did and he agreed and would I talk to dh about it when he came back so he doesn't go off the deep end about it.

Strangely, I feel better about this. Because he did go bonkers this afternoon, and it kind of makes sense that he thrashed out because he was frightened - as well has having already behaved badly about refusing to go out, rather than just doing the moody thing because I called his bluff on the not going out.

So now, dh anger management for the second part of the day.

Isn't family life exhausting?

On the upside, me and dcs are going to stay on a farm with a friend from London next week, and her children. And we will do very wholesome nice things in fields (not sure yet) and hopefully drink a lot and have bar-b-q's by the river.

I think understanding that people have behaved badly because xyz is always easier isn't it
how brilliant that he could tell you
the problem is that usually we haven't a CLUE why they are being so difficult and often neither have they
that makes it all very awkward and hard to be sympathetic when you are just thinking "WHAT THE?"

thank you MrsC

The plot thickens 100x. And clears. Good luck

Oh poor OB that must have been horrid. Well done for getting straight back on yer bike.
Ds1 nearly ran over a neighbour's car the other day, was shaken, but got back on the same day.
Is there a cheap but decent haircut emporium near you? If so, would you come and hold my hand? Well, not with your hand obv.

Yes, I have deleted many messages to Franny. It is actually quite hard not to be trite and annoying at this stage.

I have been attempting to eat the coconut dd2 won yesterday. It is resisting me rather. How does one get it out of its shell in more than small shards?

I am sorry
I should just go in my own thread and stay there, like a dangerous animal that might bite
you could throw crusts and things over the bars

Does coconut count as a fruit? [hopeful]

don't bother
eat a bounty
much nicer

Yes agree Fra. I think that's mostly the case and he didn't really know why he'd waged war with me about not going out and was kicking against the boundary, and then he broke the thing and thought he was really in for it now, and so went LOOPY as a kind of defense.

That's my story anyway. It's easier to swallow. When he's 16 and in a young offenders institution we will have to think of another story.

OB. Ow.

Fra, I thought when I read through the thread and you were all irritated and bored this morning 'Ah, she'll have it tonight'. Do yo still feel irritated and restless?

NO NO NO Franny, you must stay here because we love you.

I have felt irritated and restless for about 6 weeks 100 I am embarrassed to report
I now have major fanjo pain which at least is novel
not terribly socially acceptable when people ask how you are though

I wish I could remember when my prediction was, I might be right and then I won't be able to say, ha ha, I was right.

when I say major please take with pinch of salt
major for me probably not quite the same as major for normal brave people

100x, it's nice having you here

If you were really bothered, you could search all your posts MrsG.

it's lovely having 100 here
we are hardly ever all here at the same time

yes, I could couldn't I, but I think I will just sit here and you can throw me bits of bounty instead.

100x I have a terribly stubborn DS2 (12). He is the most brilliant and inventive potterer who loves being at home doing a bit of this and that. He loathes feeling constrained by other people's plans. When he was six he told me he hated timetables and socks.

We now have lots of conversations about him really listening to good advice. He is slowly learning that sometimes it's in his own interests to budge a bit.

Oh!

Revived by coconut I searched and it seems that I predicted he would be born at 3pm YESTERDAY.

Ooops.