We had peaches, we had plums, we had strawberries in the sun, but the peaches and the plums, like the strawberries are all gone - 10 / 10 thread

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i love toot's story too, I can picture it.

Yes, I like TooT's too. DH likes board games, we have masses. Usually when he plays he is uber stressy, so perhaps they just enjoyed free wheeling through an incredibly boring game called Traffic Warden which ds2 got at a car boot sale. It was extremely annoying as it was all about being fined and clamped and parking in the wrong places and having to buy and build on you congestion charge square. And ds2 was the traffic warden and kept handing out penalty notices.

Actually, why in god's name did anyone devise this game?

BBee I like that about your Dad. It's very funny and warming. My Dad was 82 last week, that's quite old isn't it.

Also as we were talking about depression, I wanted to tell you all that dh thinks JJ is depressed. I'm not sure if he is or not. It's difficult to tell.

Caprica6, welcome and for pity's sake, don't try snd achieve 10 on your first day, you will explode with flatulence
But that is very impressive .Sadly potates don't count as one of the 5 (or 10) a day, but sweet potatoes do!

You may notice many of us don't manage to do 10 - but at least we usually mamnage 5 or more which is better than many I guess.

100 poor JJ What have you done to him? Excercise and diet, that's the key....

IKWYM, I take a wonderfully fruity and veggiehealthy lunch to work but if I am at home, I tend to forget to eat breakfast or lunch

hi caprica (is that a battlestar thing?...)

Filth - can I have details on you lunchbox? I am being better at packing up my lunch but am most unimaginative. It is usually what we had for tea last night with more vegetablke and salad cream.

100 - JJ can borrow my light box if I get one! What are his symptoms?

i have had a bad day - did the forgetting thing.

lettuce
tomaotes
kidney beans
cucumber

oh - I didn;t realise it was THAT bad!

BBee, you very generous. I shall tell him. I don't know, he seems alright to me. He went to stay with a dog lady when we were away. DH and I can't work out whether he had a horrid time there, or whether he had a marvellous time and is depressed to be back here.

BUT I think it might just be that he is one next month, and just a bit older. Maybe? God knows. He has lost a bit of his mojo, he's just a slightly more sober presence perhaps.

So you DO have a light box? And it's no good.

I think we need to challenge your insomnia BBee. With natural products in the first instance.

well then he is not a puppy anymore - could it be just that?

[btw when the dog lady brought him back she said to me 'We had a lovely day on the bank holiday. I walked four dogs over to K and we watched the cheese rolling there, we sat in the long grass to be cool and had a picnic' and I said 'the dogs had a picnic?' and she said 'Yes, lots of treats and fun and then we walked back in the evening.'

I think he might be depressed to be back here. I've never taken him on a picnic.]

no - have not got a light box but someone here (franny I think) suggested it and it should work shouldn't it? If it is seasonal it should.

I know there should be exercise and stuff, but, well, you know.

She also said we could call her while we were away and she'd hold the phone next to him and we could listen to him sleeping. And I sort of snurked politely when she said that. And never did ring up to listen to him breathing. Perhaps he knows this? Perhaps she told him?

maybe he is pondering the cheese rolling.

that woman sounds a bit bonkers, but in a good way.

I have been eating dozens of m&s clementines recently. They are delish.

x-posts - the woman sounds very bonkers.

dogs breathing, picnics for dogs, taking them to watch cheese rolling.

I think JJ is just deeply confused.

Pointydog - forget about the fruit, talk about my dog.

Well the last thing Bee, which gives me hope he'll get over this, when she brought him back there was a look-out system because the dcs all missed him so much. And then they all ran up the pavement to greet him, and he pulled madly on the lead, and they all collapsed on the pavement. And then he came gambolling back in, and there was much delight. And the dog lady cried, she said 'that was like a film, it was so beautiful'

She's mad isn't she? I thought she was okay. She was like a dogwalker out of an Anne Tyler novel. Sort of dreamy and pretty with funny hats, but a bit lost in her life. I thought her appropriate.

dd1 needs on puter. Will need to rejoin later

100 I am sure all this depression is just the wet. I feel like I never had a mojo, let alonee lost it.

DS starts school tomorrow [eek]

yes you need you r dog walker to be mad. A sane dog walker might question the reason for their exsitence without warning and abandon dogs mid picnic.

FK - how are you feeling? How is he? Is he all eager and smiles? It is all very strange isn't it.

He likes the wet FK

Oooh exciting about school. It's quite fun you know, mine all liked it in reception.

DS1 is writing a speech he is going to give about being house captain. It's rather extraordinary - an emotive call to arms. I am biting my tongue and nodding as he reads bits out with arm waving.