A Quango, a Quango, it made me eat the mango - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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

Avi - What will you make with it, can you spare some for schnapps? I just made the most enormous jar and it looks so pretty bobbing about the colour is beautiful.

recipe for schnapps please!!

ooh i just had some cheese
ooh it's funny

ooh it sits in your mouth all funny, kind of coating it with goo
and it has a funny after taste
ook

Dairy is WEIRD after you haven't had it for ages, it's all acidic and coaty and fatty isn't it. You'll get over it! I still can't drink milk though.

Recipe for rhubarb schnapps

Fuck-off great jar
loads of rhubarb
coup0le of bottles of vodka
large bag of castor sugar

shake

admire daily

drink with lemonade by campfire in the summer, pref with view and a smoke.

It's so pink

ooh it's funny
i am disappointed! what an anti climax
it has such a sludgy texture and the weird milky aftertaste

Wombling...both DD and DS do that so when we sit down for a meal I let them offload for a minute and then ask if they remember something good that happened. I point out nice things on the way to school when I can and say 'do you remember the X,Y OR Z that we saw?'. Then bit by bit we talk about the good things first. It does take time, but it did change things. I also say gently....'would you like to ask mummy about her day?'...lol

I'd not ask anything at all Wombling, just for a bit. Let her volunteer the information she wants to tell you. Then do HTT 'wow' and 'uhuh' and 'it must have made you feel lonely when the girl said that' and then schtum. Nothing more. Let her tell you what she's going to tell you, without the anxiety. They really do wait in the silence and then floor you by saying 'it was okay, I went and played with Sarah instead.'

It doesn't mean you don't care, but it does mean you break the pattern of your anxiety / her uncertainty / the misery memoir.

I think not asking, is different to not caring. You can still care, and chat about stuff at bedtime, but not do the 'How was school? What happened at playtime?' bit early on.

Just a thought. I thought TF was good and wise on all this too earlier.

Cheese.

That sounds like a good idea Atilla, she is so young that she doesn't seem to remember much, but I will persist.

Franny, I think that the £ sounds reasonable. I think the being listened to was the thing I found most useful from my homeopath, although she did resolve my bad psoriasis/eczema. I hope it works for DS2

Oh 100, I could kiss you. I think you are right, I am working myself up into a frenzy about this, and she can sense it. I need to STOP.

Oh btw, DH had hidden your book from me, he has got me something from amazon for mother's day, and thought your book was it, so hid it away and I finally twigged. I can't wait to start it.

I will tonight. [excited]

Oh and before I got into telling wombling to ignore her child - I meant to say thank you for reading pink and guad, and it means a lot, and I appreciate it.

I also meant to say I want to know what Bee will do her dissertation on, and has she stopped going to college now? And where is she working. And I also meant to say Molly - that sounds like a good letter, and suspect punishment re playtime not the way to go, but when the professionals come on board they'll sort that out, and in the meantime it's good he's happier in the classroom.

Top stars to wizard.

Can't remember what else.

Oh good, am glad you think so wombling. Is a very fine line to tread but I've done the not asking with ds1 (my source of anxiety) and it WORKS. And they don't mean to feed you a line, but ones own worry does infect the communication - mine did anyway. HTT honestly v. good on teaching you how not to jump in and ask too many questions etc. I found it a v. useful script.

Mango!

Freezing here too, today. Full moon made for a very interesting day here yesterday. Also have period. Just so you all know.

Am glad F&Z's wizard was good. It does all make sense.

I crave cheese often and milk sometimes too but when I have them, I am always surprised by the aftertaste a wierd mouthfeel.

I have organised a drumming circle for playgroup tomorrow. Everyone thinks it sounds very cool and so I didn't mention that the leader she is a quite well known witch. I doubt she'll come in a pointy hat but who knows.

Veg pot pie without pastry (apparently it was 'deconstructed')
apple sauce
blueberry pie
apple
corn
Juice

Six or seven. Headache which is either a cosnequence of 2 hrs sleep last night or the bottle of wine I drank

sending hugs atilla....got to dash to work.

hello SB, [wave]

{{hug}} Attula.
Mind my pointy elbows though

Hey, SB, how are you?
Drumming sounds v cool, dd2 would love that!!

Dd1 is on the countdown ot her birthday (tomorrow). It is also Comic Relief, plus cake friday, plus she got her gold award (first in class ) so it is going ot be such a day!!

Raisins

Dd2 had muesli and yoghurt for her breakfast and has declared it her favourite

Cheese - have hardly eaten it since Xmas and I often fantasis about it but when I have it (usually as pasrt of a meal, like in rissotto, pasta etc) it makes me v thirsty afterwards. And gammy mouthed.

morning

will try to FOCUS and LIST today
have been doing 10, honest, but haven't listed

so far:

apple
banana
raisins
melon

just wondered if i could throw in a gratuitous photo of owen wilson for no reason at all
to help us all focus
i think he could inspire us as he looks so radiant - must surely be a result of eating f+v

that reminds me boco i still have TWO of your dvds
sorry

Erm, list:

juice

that's particularly bad, Will go home now and eat lots of veg, honest. Yesterday was at least 8. There will be yoga today, too.

Owen Owen Wilson I love his cock-nose.

Are you going to watch those flying concords fz? There's no hurry for either back. And it sounds like life aquatic was buggered when i gave it to you anyway, so you could just chuck that.

If you eat a large bowl of muesli with dried cherries, raisins, sultanas, cranberries and seeds, does it still only work out as about one?

Oh yes, I'll focus on Owen, no problem at all.

The F&V is proving more of a problem.

So far handful of dried cherries and a banana

Ew to Owen.

I am still admiring my rhubarb and have put it on the piano where it would catch the sun if there were any.

I am procrasatinating. I should be doing something but I can't concentrate. Where s my focus?

I have made lemon drizzle cakes with a mascarpone and lemon curd filling though I resisted. I reckon I was inhaling points as I filled it.