Mangohood - 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

Last year I had money saved for festivals. this year, I don't...
There have been Boat Expenses.
I'd love to have gone to Laitiude or Beautiful Days or Solfest but we just can't afford it this year.
Reckon we will be camping a lot instead. The boys are quite gutted.
Even the little local festival which we have been involved in for several years isn't happeneing this year due to spiralling licence costs.
Pah.

Camping will be fun though. Mine are excited about going for two weeks but ds1 is a bit disappointed about latitude. There's always next year.

LittleR - I had the same dilemma, had to muddle along as the pill made me mental and I couldn't have the coil. I think do what you can. Try it and see, you'll soon know!

I really wish I could like camping. I try. But the truth is it's horrendous, all that scrabbling around on the floor, everything a bit damp, and cold, and how complicated everything is, like getting water and washing up and making food and eating food and finding socks and finding anything by the light of small wind up lantern that doesn't give out light. It's painful. The idea of doing it for 2 whole weeks is terrifying. Where do you PUT everything? It's all on the floor!

The pill made me insane too. I was a little bit deranged. Then I stopped taking it and was fine. But maybe things have moved on, you could chat to gp about it, see what sorts there are. I know several people who got pg on the coil, seems to be a bit hit and miss.

In later years, The pill made me very depressed and completely buried my libido. I didn't actually realise it ws the pill until I came off it for a while and BINGO!!! Everything perked up!

I had almost persuaded DH that we needed to get a tent adn then I went and got up the duff and he now says he's glad we didn't .

I was fine on the pill, for years and years, but never went back on it after dd. Probably too old and fat now (oh and pregnant)

Oh Stuffit, we had staff (well a cleaner which was and still is well outside my experience) in HK (and my dad wasn't even a proper officer ) it was most odd, my Mum used to make us tidy and clean our rooms before the cleaner came. I can kind of see why, she wasn't there to tidy up after bratty children but I could never understand why we had to clean before the cleaner came.

Jesus, I've just been into town and got two new tyres for the car. I think we'll be living on bakes beans for the next couple of weeks

I was never deranged or anything on the pill but I used to suffer with headaches due to the oestrogen in it. I won't go back on it again. I'm constantly in a quandry about contraception choices.

Always thought the rhythm method sounded so funky.

Like you'd both be clicking your fingers while doing it. Not very good for avoiding pg though, really.

Littlerach I can really recommend charting your cycles (in conjunction with condoms) with the help of this book.
I also find it generally helpful/reassuring to be a bit more in tune with things. I think condoms are very reliable though aren't they - the failure rate is down to 'user failure' isn't it?

Years ago I tried several different pills and none agreed with me for one reason or another, so have never wanted to go back to hormonal forms of contraception

LOL Boco at clicking your fingers!

I seem to be strangely emotional today. We went to the science museum and I welled up at:

Footage of Neil Armstrong landing his spaceship on the moon with less than 10 seconds worth of fuel left (which I have seen many times before and never felt moved)

A film about the plight of the Sturgeon in the great lakes. And I hate fish.

Where's Toot?

Running I expect.

Boco - we used to go for four weeks, pretty much the whole summer holiday. The thing is, it isn't really worth going for less than a week because it is so hard at first. You need everything for two days that you need for two weeks.

It takes a while to get an order going and a place for everything but when you do, you find yourself beginning to relax, and then seen as you have everything you need and it took so long to set up, you can't be bothered to take it all down again so you stay for ages and get really relaxed, and brown, and full of wine and you have new friends and it seems, well, like how it's supposed to be.

Then you really appreciate getting home and having all the comforts and then you don't mind the winter because you have lived outside for a refreshing month.

I am going to see The Young Victoria after WW. I am not expecting too much.

Camping doesn't have to be uncomfortable. My friends used to take a tablecloth,and set up a table with a vase of flowers, a fruit bowl and a teapot. Was lovely. And then you get people who take fridges and tellies with them but that doesn't seem like proper camping to me.

Also, having a camervan transforms the experience, especially with very young children. There's no hassle as everything is in it and you just hop in.

We have a fridge in our van and it is very useful. I would hate a tv but I often have flowers on a table.

afternoon all
i will tell about neighbourhood boy honest
i always feel in a hurry
it is a different one 100! we have a lot of neighbourhood boys

bunny, butt paste is one of the ones i ordered! then i read their website which was a mistake, as apparently nappy rash is caused by parents arguing and creating a bad atmosphere around the baby
so that helped

mango his eczema is great now, except on his bottom
it never got better, it only got less bad, and the only thing out of all the things we have tried, that has worked at all, is steroid cream
and he's just finished another 2 week course of it
and it is so dodgy to use
and we have to stop now and it's already got worse in the last few days while we were still using it!
so pretty poor show really

I am lurking for comfort.....

LR I had an Implanon implant and it really suited me doen to the ground. No noticeable side effects and once in there was nothing more to do for 2(?) years.......

Hello........you are all very, very lovely!!

and bunny i LOLed about the ungrateful fuckers bit
of course i never think that at all

today went very well and everyone who turned up was enthusiastic about it

Oh Franny - I think reading websites is going to be a bad thing re DS's bottom. And, anything to do with children - at some point someone will make sure you know it is All Your Fault. Grrrr.

Hello lurker...

Am glad you had no ungratfeul fuckers today.

I am a bit pissed off - I was going to organise a trip to the fire station. I've done it before, it's no bother but my friend insisted she was going to do it. I was going to sort it in January but she said it was too cold, then February came and went & I said I'd do it so she didn't have to worry about it but she assured me she'd get on to it but then March has almost gone and she still hasn't done it. We could have had 2 trips by now. Would it be very bad if I just organised it and told her when we are going?

rach one of the things i don't like about the pill is that one of the ways it works, is by stopping implantation of a fertilised egg
which to me is not actually contraception as conception has already occurred
apparently it is not classed as being so until after implantation has taken place
i don't really agree

(ps have no feelings about other people using this method but not happy with it for myself)

And Franny - if you need anything like Butt Paste, you must get me to buy it and send it to you, silly. If you need anything else, let me know.

That's not how all pills work is it? I thought just the coil did that and the combined pill stopped you releasing an egg altogtether. If you still released an egg you would still have a normal period rather than a 'breakthrough' bleed?

Maybe I am wrong. I don't really get it.

oh ta bunny

I thought you didn't release an egg because your body thought you were already pregnant