You're a part-time vegger and full time friend... 10/10 thread - all 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.

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Oh dear. She's possibly not in a fit state to listen? When ds2 was in SCBU this Very Important Doctor came to tell me all sorts of things and about how he would have to be transferred to Nottingham to have some stomach thing, and I just burst into tears and he drummed his fingers on the side of the crib and said 'Is there anyone else I could talk to?'

Poor poor Fra. So, they think he has an infection, but they're not sure what sort? Why do they think he has meningitis though? Is he very poorly? I don't understand.

That's what we did Guad - kids stayed up until about midnight each night and then had a lie in and an afternoon nap sometimes - they adapted pretty well to it, dd2 would crash out anywhere even in the middle of noisy concert so she always had enough sleep. dd1 bit grumpy by the evening but enough to keep her wide eyed.

Next festival question:

do you go about with your children, all the time. Or can they go off on their own? If they were 11.9 and 7 say.

Oh poor things. hen ds2 and I were in they promised us we could come home on the Wednesday, and we did (when they let us out I panicked and burst into tears and said 'but are you SURE we can go, are you SURE he's alright?' It knocks your instinct for six ), so hoping it will be the same for F. What they said to us about the ABs is that they couldn't tell when he had or even if he had anything (they did a chest X-ray too and initially said there were shadows on the lungs , then that the picture was too bad to tell anything {) but in case he did have anything it needed to be sat on hard, as newborn. Oh it was awful, for all sorts of reasons. I put it out of my mind, once out, and carried on at the time - I had to - but I think I probably only completely stopped counting his breaths last month. Glad the LLL person is there, anyway.

I have never been to a festival.

In the children's area they'd be fine on their own - it's small enough, and enclosed, but lots to do. We sat under a tree and let ours do parachute games and workshops and stuff yesterday and kind of half looked out for them.

Some friends were there in a crowd and they let their kids go off on their own in a big group - the oldest was 12 and youngest 5. I wasn't sure about that really - it's still quite big. Did hear friend of friends 12 year old met some 16 year olds who gave him his first taste of vodka and he ended up in the medical tent - so suppose it depends very much on your children.

I did quite like Latitude when we went a couple of years ago, but there was something faintly nauseating about it. I don't know why but the earnestness and wholesomeness and general nice for the family atmosphere was a bit dull.

Maybe it has got better, maybe I was in a bad mood. Yes, that must be it because people seemed to be having a nice time, though not exactly excited, and if you want somewhere with an edge or beer cans piled up and so on then there are plenty of others. Also we didn't stay for the evening, maybe that's where the atmosphere was best.

Oh thank you. I'm enjoying this Q & A. I will have many more questions over the next year. Hope you're ready.

Bero - I know. I had much the same. I came to the conclusion that nobody knows anything. Both ds's had ABS and shadows on lungs. We were in for ages with ds2 and eventually dispatched with a packet of Gaviscon fgs. Though on the whole grateful that everyone is so cautious I suppose. Not nice though, not nice at all.

Lupe

lol.

sorry, what a mardy arsed post after you have had a nice time, Boco. I am sure it was great. It must help that there are things you want to see there, when we went there no music I was into really and I was pregnant and grumpy.

lolol.

Someone on MamaG's festival thread says Latitude is a naice festival for naice people.

Anyway, I am naice. I don't want grimy misery and jumping about. I want wholesome and trees with lights and a literature tent.

Oh me too, 100x, that is mostly what I want. But then sometimes I want the grime and jumping and a slightly wild unhealthy feel to a field. But then of course, I should go somewhere else, without the children.

Yes, you could go near a local sewage works or something and jump up and down?

I spent an hour of it listening to shocking poetry which put me off, but then that's all about the timing. Someone brilliant could have been on later. This year Simon Armitage was there and I am quite fond of him.

If someone mentions programmes I may hit them over the head with this empty gin and tonic glass.

Yes I'm naice too. And they're right on that thread, and that could be a bit nauseating I suppose guadaLupe, i did spot bunting on tents.

But you could still get your fix of beery moshing at night, to Grinderman etc in the big arena. Franz Ferdinand was good for that. During the day definitely not, at night it would have been very nice to have had a babysitter and done more of that, but if you do have to keep the kids with you then it was fine.

Anyway I'm pleased Boco saw Joanna Newsome because she loves her. I read that she kept forgetting the words? But in a nice way.

See, I know the gossip. But I've never been. Mind you perhaps I won't be able to go because I'll be in America by then, in some unspecified place - but not Arizona, definitely not Arizona. [considers life options carefully]

Ew, I have a perfect image of olive slurry being raked round in an oversized cake tin now.
I did like dancing in very grubby places once. I don't now. I don't like anything tonight. I should log off,

Ds2 slept between 4pm and 8pm so I am up for a bit. I have begun to see things out of the corners of my eyes.

Joanna Newsome was very cute - she's like a little creature - she was very embarrassed and nervous and kept forgetting but everyone loved her so much that no one minded because she was so charming. I love her even more. Friends we were with just stared at me in horror and said 'wtf is this shit?' and I had to put my big sunglasses on to hide the fact that I was practically crying with how lovely the music was. I told the friends I couldn't really love them anymore because they didn't understand.

Oh but I Do love Joanna Newsome, and blondie, and I don't even mind Franz Ferdinand so I think if I was there thie year I would have liked it a lot. I will wait a couple of years. I could barely keep an eye on ds2 at the school fete and I only had two glasses of wine. There was bunting there too.

Was she cute? I would have loved her I know it. When I play her music people look aghast but they just don't get it. I mean, it's haunting.

See, and you didn't get tetchy at the school fete. You got drunk and had a good time. Latitude will seem exciting after the school fete I reckon. Maybe.

I'd have listened to FF. I'd have liked that. I might even have jumped a bit. Am worried about children though. Not sure how this will work.

Womad is near here you know.

Womad a bit too world music for me, there'd be too much juggling I think.

Children would be fine, you just take it in turns to do things you want to do, so we had deals, we'll make flowers out of junk, but then we're going to jump up and down over there for a while. It mostly works. Also childless friends a real winner if you can bring any, that helped hugely as we could hand them over a bit.

I did get a bit tetchy at the barbeque stall. The woman glared at me as I got confused with the money and she said to her friend, have they paid for one or two burgers. VERY RUDE I thought

I moved on to the next woman, who happens to be my gp, and I said very loudly, two vegi burgers quick, please, we have confused the poor dears on the money counter and they think we are on the hustle, and then I rolled about laughing. The grump was only about forty but she did have a very frumpy barnet. She did more glaring.

You should have done your filthy wild field dancing at them whilst waiting for the burgers. That would have showed her.

Yes, she wouldn' have liked that. There wasn't much dancing there, a bit of swaying to a kazz band. Oh and the belly dancers, they were quite something else to watch, aged 6-10.

Right I am off to bed. All my children are still up somewhere. They have seen UFO's tonight. I reckon they were flaming chinese lanterns let off at a celebration but they did look very odd. Half the street were out looking at them. Dd happened to watch explorers this afternoon so she was very set in her view that it was extra terrestrial. If I go to bed they may follow.

Night.

Night. Sleep well.

Hope we see you again. I'm with dd. I reckon it's an alien invasion. Good luck!