Fruity is in the pie of the beholder - 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 you must find them, they are good fun.

We will have had 8 weeks in all, and must admit it is beginning to feel like that. I usually like the holidays, but these are dragging now. I can never think of enough things for them to do, and I keep sending ds's to the park, and they keep coming back half an hour later and I want to not let them in and shout 'See you at six' through the letterbox like a mother of yore.

We're away next week for 12 days, and that'll be great.

We are all stuck inside with colds atm. Ds1 has a hideous cough which seems to sap his energy slightly - leaves him just capable of annoying his siblings in a variety of ways

Where are you going?

There are two paths basically, and the lower path takes you past the cave and through the gate to the green bit with the field. (We played cricket there one night a few weeks ago, that was good too). But if you take the upper path, you find the rope swings, and then off to the left is this extraordinary bit where you see you are in an old quarry because huge bits of the earth have been dug out. There's a den in there too, and a good place for riding bikes in an off-terrain sort of way. It's all under the trees. It's rather unusual and good.

[bows]

Am going to do washing now.

Oh sorry x-post.

Am going to Tuscany I'm actually a walking cliche circa 1989. I might call it Chiantishire in a minute.

I think we took the lower path, mostly.

H ave a wonderful time!

Hello Toot and 100.

Will email shortly TooT.

Sounds lovely 100.

Have put haircut photos on profile. (The walking stick on the one is not mine, but SIL's 97yo grandmother's. If I am still alive at 97, I would like to be like her, absolutely clear in the head, living in the bosom of my family and still mobile enough to potter slowly about in my garden)

Would you like to see the Agritourismo place we are staying for the first three nights? It's a farm. They have a beauty saloon. That's what it says, 'beauty saloon'. I am hoping to get a face pack tossed down the bar at me, and to have a shoot out with massage oils.

Is it just me or do Bero and TooT look alike? Did you think you did when you met?

Good haircut Bero. Very good.

Lovely pics Bero, and lovely haircut. Many times better than my disaster!

Do we?

100, I don't think it struck me so much at the time - was too busy enjoying the general loveliness of the TooT clan -, but I think I kwym about us looking quite alike.

LOL at 'beauty saloon'. Aromatherapy at dawn.

Yes 100x, do show us the saloon place.
We have a book called Lost in Translation which is full of English signs in foreign places. Delightful

oh, it's high noon, isn't it

Well you look alike to me.

I have one last thing I want to share before I go off and be useful. At lunch ds's and I decided we wanted to be dropped off to go to the bookshop. dd refused, dh said 'But I've got a tennis lesson at four' and I said, patiently, 'well take dd with you, and we'll pick her when we walk back' 'No, No' he cried, quite crossly.

DS2 put his hands on the table and said in his best mock-camp voice 'OMG, he's having an affair'

and ds1 looked at him over his glasses and said 'You are not having an affair with your tennis coach are you? I thought his name was Steve.'

And dh looked super hassled and said 'No, I'm not having an affair with him. I just want to, um, be able to concentrate on my serve' and we all cracked up laughing, apart from Dh, who was v. put out.

My children are really quite scary sometimes. That is a true story.

Oh, and I have no idea where they have got the 'affair' thing from. I suspect The Simpsons. I blame The Simpsons for everything.

Good story, Franny!

I wanted Dulcie if I had a girl. Couldn't use it now because DS's name starts with a D and would look too similar. It would be a bit like Trevor and Tracey Babies are registered within 4 days here so you have to know a name pretty quickly.

Bero, lovely pictures.

100x

100 LOLOL
I wanted witty arch children - I looked after a family who were wonderful at that sort of thing and would have loved dcs to be like that - ds1 is so not, his campness is completely without self consciousness

which reminds me, I took him to soft play thing the other day and the supervisor said "you probably want to take his socks off"
I hissed "I would but he has got pink nail varnish on his toes"

at pink nail varnish

avi are you tired? or something else?

carrot, mushroom, onion, tofu, and some kind of unidentified veg box greenery
v nice, in a stir fry

our tomatoes are ripening at last, and great big bushy fronds of carrot tops

It's because you haven't been here much Avi. You have missed us. Stay and we will handfeed you fruit salad and regale you with odd tales.

it was ds1's idea entirely btw
when ds2 was going to be born, we thought he would have to go and stay with my friend and he begged for this 'sleepover' kit he had seen in the shops
I promised I would get him one, but when I went to shop it was gone, and so I asked him what on earth it had in it
apparently, pink nail varnish was main component

he looks delightfully louche in it I must say, esp with Marc Bolan curls