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, that's a shame. Did you just drive round and round and end up going home then? What a nuisance and poor dd, Toot. They do get really excited about people coming over don't they.

Toot - I cant believe you haven't tried the raspberry truffles. I must send you some right away. You will have to remind me of your address by e-mail. How is that going these days?

Thanks for the sympathy. It helps to know that this isn't just me being incredibly impatient with DS although I am sure that is part of it. I have vowed to bemuch better today and will make sure I do the 10 mins playing without getting up to do something else. I used to be quite good at that but I think I haven't been recently.

Am glad TF's DD is better

Child-carer sounds promising, Bero I am interviewing a new one tomorrow.

OsBa, what happened? Toot had to eat all the soup!

I am off to the uni this morning to record some phrases - they needed a Brit

I like the phrase threenager. Describes DS perfectly

Superbunny - ds1 was a tyrant between the age of three and four. I really thought we had missed the terrible twos but oh no. It passed though, and now he behaves like an angel. DD has never had a tantrum but she is by far the hardest work mentally.

Someone once told me that children have the same amount of trouble in them and it comes out at different times and in different ways. Not sure what I think about that but anyway, I'm sure it will settle down soon.

It's painfully embarrassing.

I didn't even get to the outskirts of Bristol.

I did however get a rather fraught tour of all the places In Bristol that you see on the front display of buses but are not entirely convinced exist.

I stopped the car and asked directions to the Axxxx but no-one set me straight.

I guess I'll be getting a SNav for Xmas.

even TooT's toddler is mocking me.

what can i susbstitute for chard in a recipe? I have no spring greens (obv) or spinach. nothing...

Tyrant? This is not what I want to here. I fear my DS is one. Still, things can only get better, right?

OB, do you have anything remotely green or leaf-like? Because, if you don't, I think substituting the chard may be tricky

Avocado
Bean chili (2?)
Peas & corn (1)
Orange
mini mars bars

Sorry, SB, I didn't mean tyrant, I meant absolute TREASURE of course.

Hello

dd2 is going through a tricky phase. She's decided she is not interested in eating or sleeping. Two worst things to give up really. And walking - she doesn't like walking anymore either. The school run is torture.

I had a really bad driving lesson today. Really bad. I nearly ran a group of men over. They were scary, they swore at me and banged on the car in what might have been Slovakian. But it was a green light and they just walked into the road in front of the car. The instructor had to slam on the emergency breaks. He started yelling at them, they yelled back - was awful. And then he was yelling at me saying 'just because they're immigrants doesn't mean you can just run them down!' as if i'd done it on purpose. And I had sprangles - you know when your eyes just sprangle without meaning to so I couldn't see where i was going. Oh dear.

Guad how's house stuff?

"just because they're immigrants doesn't mean you can just run them down"

Did he really say that? People are funny sometimes.

I have had someone bang on the bonnet a few times. When I just passed my test there was a zebra crossing on a hill and I couldn't quite hold my clutch and always ended up stopping partially on the crossing and waving and mouthing sorry at the pedestrians. They usually rolled their eyes but a very scary man thumped and called me a stupid cow. Wanker. I did the wanker sign at him when he passed but he looked round and turned back towards me so I whizzed off left when I meant to go right and had to drive for ages round the one way system.

The house.

I have avoided bringing it up for fear of unblocking the dam. I am very stressed about it. It has dry rot. I have done a thread. It is ok, should be solvable but it is scary. I am sort of permawired atm.

Oh Boco, how scary. You poor thing. Are you ok? Is sprangle a real word? I like it.

Sorry other people have tricky children too. Maybe it's the season? Although I am beginning to think that they go from one stressful sort of behaviour to another one so as soon as you work out a magical way of dealing with one issue, you need to find a whole new tactic for a different problem. Who'd have thought small people could be such hard work, eh? It's a good thing they have their lovely moments.

Guad, your car story made me laugh, sorry. I am sure it wasn't funny at the time.

I daren't do or say anything over here in case someone pulls out a gun. I have seen that happen

New thread please! Night of the living Veg...

I like sprangle. It makes me think of those bendy sparkly sticky up bits that you used to get on alice bands. What were they called? Big craze in the eighties.

Deely Boppers

Just popped in to read thread....more later...storytime approacheth

Oh yes, I remember those. They were so coool!

Deely Boppers? Really? I didn't know that.

for Bunny

Ah yes, that was it! Deely boppers. Why the fuck were they called that, and why did we wear them more to the point.

weird

lol

Mmmm, nice

this is me wearing some

lol @ those pics (but not the rude one )!

I used to beg to get deely boppers when we went to scotland. They were fab. Those were the days...

Deely boppers live in a musty old cupboard in the back right hand corner of my mind, sharing a space with a pair of bright blue canvas "pumps", some blue and white striped pedal pushers, a sailor top , and a gold headband with dangly sequins a la Hayzee Fantayzee.

Some Fruit
Some Veg

Some yoofs opened their car door into my car while parked next to local shop - DS was in car but I was not. They drove off.

Now have nice red score mark down my blue car

Oh arse

I think I must have left my iPod at teh gym on Sunday

What are the chances of it having been handed in...