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

[FrannyandZooey]

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I have just had my first child free day off for 4 months!

I cleaned the house in an hour and had a 4-hour coffee with a friend. Eaten too much leek and potato soup and apple cake. I have an hour before pick-up

My thread title suggestions are always shit.

LR, why id DD2 not going to school? All of DS's friends start preschool but because he is born in Sptember and I am skint (and I secretly want to HE), he's not going. I think he'll be a bit disappointed.

Enjoy the prom, Idris. And lunch. Happy Birthday

Hooray for sun & child-free days.

Not sure what is up with me. More BF stuff despite having a lovely weekend together. And upset over a friend who seems to no longer be a friend. And stress re life in general. It'll pass.

What does one do with leeks? I have many.

soup,
au gratin
in a pasta bake?

Hello! I've nearly missed a whole thread! But don't worry I'm back! Boco and Franny I waved at you both on the way past My F&V intake since Thurs is as follows: onion soup, beans, mushrooms, tomato, salad, coleslaw, fruitinis (about 5!) juice (lots), banana. So about 10 Had some very veggy chicken soup when we got back today which my fabby mum had made.

We had a great weekend away which was a little bit spoilt on Sunday night but I don't think F1 is really a 10/10 sport so I won't go into it here!

OsBa the clothes have arrived and both fit and are lovely. Let me know your address and I will send you a little something to cover the postage.

Hope you're all well. Can someone do me a summary - I need to sleep and don't have time to read 900+ messages!

to summarise; franny is having a wee MN break,
Bero is having a wee break (RL stuff).
100 is glowing and bronzed from her holiday and her poor dog is depressed because he got taken on picnics by his odd dog-walker
Some peolple are rather glum (I blame th e weather)]
We have some new recruits
I am feeling cheated due to summer blending straight into November
Boco is having free life coaching and we all want some
OB has bought new jumpers
Guad went to cinema by herself.
LittleRach's little one starts school for first time.
We tried to plan an uplifting bus trip out but people got rebellious and the rest of us ate all the Werther's Originals.

I know there is more but that is all I can remember.....

thread title ideas please, or we will fall into black hole...

''What a Fruitiful Day, hey hey, What A Fruitiful Day. And nothing is impossible in my own vegetable way''
(for the Levellers fans among us)

I'll just repeat my earlier suggestion...

"Come ye here knackered mummies, to celebrate the season of mists and mellow fruitnvegfullness"

Oh dear...... I've come over all autumnal and feel the need to quote the whole first verse.....

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells".

Gawd. Keats. So sexy. (it's the mention of clammy cells that does for me every time).

Right:
dried prunes
dried apricots
an orange
a handful of greens
butternut squash/cabbage and courgette curry
an apple

so far

Bad day yesterday. Forgot to take my bag of fruit and veg to work so ended up begging half a chicken sandwich off a client at lunchtime. Ate it gratefully then remembered I'm a vegetarian. [shame]

or ''It Ain't Neccecelery So...''?

I love What a Fruitiful Day... very cheery. Just what we need, I think

I watched 4 Weddings last night and am embarrassed to say that I really enjoyed it. I thought I would have outgrown it but it seems I haven't

LOL @ Titty (I've realised I can call you that) remembering she is vegetarian

Hoping Franny and Bero are ok.

What a Fruitful Day is good.

Dd2 is one of the youngest, so s in the last group ti start. Lots of her friends started today (their first day). They looked really little.

Veggie shephrds pie for dinner.
Brocolli
Carrots
peas.

Delicious.

Very warming and autumnal.

We had a glimps of real sun hhere too.
Managed to dry the washing on th eline.

What a Fruitiful Day....nothing is impossible with my own powerful lime?

V good, Toot

Apple
Apple crumble
Broccoli
Olives, capers, onions
Grapes

5?

oh titty that was lovely.

I do like the levellers one - I feel it would lift us all wouldn't it?

carrot
apple
kidney beans
tomato
sweetcorn
onion
carrot
celery
swede
cabbage

TA-DA!

look - isn't anyone going to pull rach up on an apple and raisin muffin!

Well I'm counting apple cake today (it did have 3 whole apples in and I did eat most a lot of it...

Toot, yes, powerful lime, perfect...!

meant to say titty, you need to know that i am very emotional...yeats made me well up...

NO!

cakes, crumbles, muffins, jam DO NOT COUNT.

FRANNY!!!!!!

What herbal stuff can you use for a cold?

oh pink, it's hard being pg and ot being able to take anything..
May I recommend Honey cider viengar (honegar) to drink in the morning with water? It is fab for chesty/throaty things.
Make sure you get extra Vit C (dur) and zinc

alliums (leeks, onions, garlic) are good cold-busting foods, also chillis and ginger if you can stomach them.

Other than that, rest, plenty of water and hand-washing.

honey and lemon and a duvet and a hot water bottle

whaddya mean, crumble doesn't count?

Pink, I second Bee's solution - duvet, hotwater bottle, and someone waiting on you hand and foot.

and cake...very good for colds...!

Yes, yes, cake. Or crumble. I think it counts as fruit

OB, I asked my BF about Berkley Breathed and he got all excited. Apparently he writes Opus the Penguin? He rambled on and on about stuff and I switched off, I'm afraid.

so, how close do the wire shall we go before starting a new thread....?