Welcome to the Hotel Cauli-fornia...you can chickpea any time you want but you can NEVER leaf. (10/10 club 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.

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 Bero, sorry things are so stressful. Look after yourself, lovely x

Grrrrrrrrr.

Asked DH to go to the shop last night to get bread / milk / butter all of which we have run out of.

He didn't.

No toast or tea or cereal for breakfast, had to give DD yoghurt for hers, and I woke up with a crick in my neck AGAIN and DD was being a complete pain. Actually, she has been a pain all week. Hitting me in the face, constantly trying to get out of her car seat, turning the gas on on the oven etc etc [knackered].

banana
neep soup (finally, the last of it!)
will be making some sort of celeriac salad later bleurgh

hopefully 5. Oh dear. It is shopping day tomorrow.

however, have had stern words with myself and am going to start one of the essays tomorrow. I have 4 books and a few suggestions for online academic journals. Am feeling like i might actually do it.

So, i am going to have a stab at "how 'old age' can affect how a person describes their state of health". Not actual title, but near enough. Deathly boring yes?

So you use old bb tins eh fumf? cunning. I thought maybe you had a stash of mini tiuns!! I tend only to buy presents for my immediate family but they sound like a good project for SD.

does this sound like a nice present bundle for people?
Bottle of cheap wine, jar of home-made chilli shallots, nice cheese/nice porkpie depending onmeat-eatingness or otherwise, home made mini xmas cake, bag of home made belgian truffles, home made felt brooch for the ladies.

CollaredDove - I think unveggerlike should substitute duplicitous. Are you looking lovely at the moment? Like you have eaten nothing but raw fruit and veg washed down with huskless wheatgrass juice for several months when in fact you have been living on little more than a large daily glass of Valpolicella. Falling in love with someone silently is wonderful. Running off with this man would be a terrible disappointment. But you know that.

Lorks! A stern Swedes! Like it. Are you 100 in disguise?

I think that sounds like a fab bundle fumf. What will you put it all in?

er, a cardboard box, decorated with stuck on lentils?

I learnt a good trick today...

Read the contents page of the extremely heavy books before you lug them out of the library rather than just lunging at a title that sounds near enough.

You will have to bully me a bit at the w/e. No extended MN/FB breaks. It's only 1500 words, how hard can it be?????????????????

excellent. do you have very young children you can blame the lentils on? A bit of glitter would add to the authenticity methinks.

Noooooo. I am a big fan of the veggers. I announced my arrival once but after consuming nothing but Heinz soup for three days, I felt I couldn't slip through the Veggers' gate and look a vegger squarely in the eye. Although I know you are all too kind to shout: "Fraud - check her pockets for a can opener!"

I didn't mean to be stern with CollaredDove.

I think the veggers' thread is the nicest on the whole of Mumsnet. I wish you were all my near neighbours.

I did it! I did it!

Step counter says 11 1/2 miles but I don't care.

I'm on such a high.

Flops into Daisy's plumped cushions.

Can I have....(puff) a large piece....(pant) of apple pie pleeee.....

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

OOhhh, Tatties was here!!

And Swedes

Bero, I have written you a wittery rambly letter. Apologies.

I have eaten some chocolate - coated gooseberries and rhubarb. And some muesli.

Fumf, they sound like stunning present bundles!!! I am not good at presents. I struggle with satisfactory offerings for the dcs

OB, I am an expert at avoiding heavy library books. I am generally dealing with 5 tickets and my arms are already over-stretched.
Could one sue a library for book-related strain? Not that I would, I love libraries. I marvel silently that they still exist and are free.

Mou - come here and let me tuck a cushion more comfortably under your toes! well done you!

Fumf I am in awe of your wonderful present bundle - I think glitter AND lentils for the boxes I want to come to your Christmas House!

At Daisy Castle it's a bit less organised. Year of DS birth though was EASY - a baby photo for everyone in a home made frame, but then he was my baby and I was off work!!!

Fallen off pedestal since then rather

Osba at least you are taking books home. I always ended up spending all my student money on photocopying at 1am when the library was about to shut and the essay due!

TooT agree about wonder of libraries. I always wanted to be a librarian or bookshop worker. And it was librarians that got Michael Moores Book (White Men thingy ...) published in the US after it was pulled as "unamerican" after 9/11

I love the idea of the world being taken over by ladies in stout shoes and tartan skirts....

FMV - They sound lovely. I normally make Christmas cake but I wondered if I should take the icing off the middle tier of my wedding cake and use that. It will be 20 months old. Do you think that's a bit too old? Seems a shame to waste it and it saves making one.

I made welsh cakes last night and they were bloody lovely. I ate too many.

We are being pushed for exchange dates and I haven't sorted out the surveyor yet. It is extremely scary and I have been freaking about whether it's the right thing to do financially but we went there yesterday with a friend who is also conservationist/knows about wooden sashes/linseed paints etc and I fell in love with it again. We had the patio doors open and the sun was streaming in and it feels right. And big. And old. And slightly grand. Well, grander than this one despite it's current state. I want the keys.

I like the idea of working in a library but I think the indoorsiness would drive me insane quite quickly.

Guad, if it wasn't slightly scary it woul;dn't be so exciting.

Guad, go with the light and sense of well being thing! It sounds wonderful!

and yes to "old" wedding cake. Traditionally top tier of wedding cake is meant to last until first born, for use as christening cake (although I'm not sure mine would have lasted the required number of years )
well for a birth even, we haven't had a christening

Guad the cake will be fine, I'm sure.

House sounds glorious, I love old houses

Oh MamaG, I hope everything goes smoothly, I envy you a little, allthough I don't want another baby..those first magical moments....sigh.

Bet the house will be fab Guad, I admire you so much. Do you know when you will get the keys? Send me a slice of the wedding cake and I'll let you know if it is OK .

Well must dash around the house and make it look as if I have actually done something today.

good vibes for housey stuff Guad...please will you email me some pictures sometime? I#d love to see it.
Whoo hoo to Mou!

Thank you for kind words w/r pressie bundles, I'm am worried as my family are rather materialistic. I know my friends will love them.

Swedes,we love you too!

Thanks. Will it be fine then? I knew you were meant to keep for christening but I wasn't sure if that was more for display purposes than it actually tasting nice.

The top one on ours was sponge but bottom two were fruitcake. I guess I can add lots more booze to it.

It has the potential to be a lovely house but I hate waiting around and uncertainty and so on. Isn't it meant to be one of the most stressful things anyway.

My mother has just phoned to say she's not coming for lunch after work she's gone home as she had a headache. She couldn't text apparently as she had no credit. I'll put away the cheese and tomato and ginger chutney and welsh cakes and tell ds2 to stop looking out of the window then.

Presents sound lovely fmv! Last couple of years I've made lino cuts but don't think I can keep imposing them on people so not sure what to do this year.

Guad good luck with the house stuff, hope it all goes smoothly. It does sound right though doesn't it, it'll be lovely .

Swedes stay, i'm sure your soup had trace vegetables?

MamaG good luck with the scan, hope the baby is the right way round.

In my town library we have the highest number of book borrowings per capita in the whole country. It wasn't my chief reason for moving here though.

Didn't people used to keep wedding cake for 20 years or more?