There's a StarFruit waiting in the Pie.......10/10

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Original post by the lovely FrannyandZooey

For anyone who wants to boost their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - If you don't normally eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 mins is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restictions on what you eat as long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving your energy levels and hopefully mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you are 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.

Yes, compromise is good Guad re the floor. Stick out for your door, you are right and it will always annoy you if you don't do it. Light is very important.

TWF, I hope the counselling does help you and yours. Am sorry though, it sounds like hard work.

Tatties, how lovely to see you! I know what you mean, I'm not sure I'm used to it myself but at least it is a meaningful name (to me). Sometimes i see posts by myself and think ''who the fuck is that...?''

Tatties, I was trying to find a Smiths track which represented your Core Values. But much as I love him, they are all a little depressing downbeat to represent you.

Though I do claim Please please let me... as my theme song on bad days!

I am tempted to give franny this

like a true nature's child

what do you think?

100 - this week's title is based on Starman by popular beat artist Mr David Bowie. I believe he used to be played on the radiogramme quite often.

What was pointy's title?
TWF just dived in in order to save us from falling offa the edge of the world!

Ah yes. Was he the genial cove who liked to delight audiences by wearing silver trousers and make-up?

we-ell technically that could apply to Freddie Mercury. Or Wizzard. Or (ulp) Garry Glitter...

or even this absolute classic

But yes!

Slaps forehead,

And there was me promising myself I would stop apologising for my very existance and I bugger up the protocol of the thread title...

many felicitations pointy, but if I sleep, every thing that passed before is long gone, please feel free to start anew....

I shall duly get my coat/ throw myself in the pit and birch myself appropriately.

We shall just have to talk even more than normal to get the other one in quick

Oh for a silver jumpsuit......sigh!

Cracking tunes molly.

Wow, whose core values are they?

I want a core values song!

TWF check out my link, if it don't raise a smile, slap my buttocks with a wet kipper and send me to the Ukraine

What was pointy's title?

Self-flagellation seems a tad harsh TWF. And I'm Mary Poppins, so you know I speak the crisp truth.

Boco I'm working on it!!

God you ARE so Mary Poppins 100! It's the sweet smile and sit up straight, with a menacing underbelly of laudanum addiction. Well, no, I made up the addiction. But the other stuff is right.

Sounds like fun Molly!

No I like laudanum bit. Is the best bit. I think Mary Poppins has something of the opiate lover about her.

She's seriously weird and unsettling in the books. Have you read them? I love her. Unsentimental. She takes no prisoners Mary Poppins.

LOLOL, Mary Poppins, yes, that has personified my rather vague perception.

Right, who needs some medicine?

Calm down, form an orderly queue now..

You have got medicine haven't you, 100x?

She definitely has hasn't she! I thought you said you like laudanum 'a bit' then.

I adore the books, haven't read them for years....yes, yes, she also had a lot of male admirers IIRC.

Oh yes she's all about restrained sexuality. [happy sigh]

I actually DO think that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down too.

And I also think a brisk walk on a windy day does everyone a lot of good. There was a time when that was my sole advice to every trouble on MN: go for a walk.

I have told Boco to do her bootstraps up tightly and go for many a walk.

Bootstraps! See! I am Mary Poppins. Suddenly my whole life is making sense to me for the first time.

My core values song is Madonna - Material Girl When I went on hols with my uni friends after we graduated we all had a tshirt made up with a Madge song and when we were picking songs everyone looked straight at me and said 'Material Girl'!

Can't keep up with all the chat and don't like the new layout I didn't even have the last one - I customised to the original.

Saw midwife this morning. All fine. DH was very helpful last night - finally! We wrote a birth plan and he washed up and made his own packed lunch. Oh but then he took dd to friend's this morning and took my car key to work after getting car seat out so I had to sprint to the midwife

Tired again now!

Molly you could go into business! Revealing people's true selves to them through the medium of music videos. You have a gift.

Yes, you've made me go for a brisk walk many times 100, in all weathers and through all manner of personal dilemma. Are you sure it's not just a way of saying 'oh piss off malingerer' ?

I drew you bootstraps.

oh, the healing powers of music..cheers Molly, I owe you one!

I bloody loved them Boco. I am looking at them now. You know in that picture I LOOK like Mary Poppins, all trim and purposeful.

Unfortunately I'm not trim, but I have purpose.

Molly. Is a gift. Who needs a wheel of life or a life coach when you have You Tube.

Has been a revelation. I'm going now to get my umbrella and hat pins, and make my dc wear aprons in the house and I am going to practise my don't mess with me I'm on opium nanny glare.

I'm SO HAPPY

I WANT SOME CORE VALUES

at the moment they are

redundant (bastard work)