If it's apples again I'm leafing - 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

pointy i think it can be very good for the soul to be being pro active about health problems
i know the flip side is you get fleeced by a load of snake oil sellers
but it has got to be good to be taking positive steps rather than just giving up
i do hope it works

Boco, how scary. Am glad you are all safe.

How is ahundred an expert on hamsters AND brakes?

Avi, I'm disappointed about the mangos. Shocked, in fact. I have $50 and 2 honey tangerines - any good?

Tomato

Pointy, is there any improvement at all? Did I ask that already? Nothing has changed here and I ate cheese for lunch because I was out and there was NOTHING else. But, it was onlhy a small bit of mozzarella, which should be made from buffalo milk so not dairy?

oh
yes
avi i have £51.70 and a bag of grapes
that's your lot

hello avi
you have gone now though
what colour are you?
i am sitting in bed eating TooT's muesli
we're going to a party on a farm, a really nice one - they have all the usual animal gubbins, baby chicks, pony rides, etc, PLUS a big indoor sandpit where you can ride electric tractors around, a giant outdoor sandpit with diggers and things, go karts, a little train, and one of those wire slide things ( my favourite)

i bet boco and lemur know where i mean

ds2's bottom does look beautiful now we have smothered it in steroids you know
it's looking peachy again
i had a wobble in the week
i was putting his too-small baby clothes in the loft and there was the tiny little stripy vest and shorts i bought him for when he was born
of course he only wore it about once because we were in the hospital, and i've got one picture of him with it on, with a cannula in his foot
then there are all the tiny weeny weeny little sleepsuits
that bit went so fast and i was fairly loopy for most of it i think
anyway they are gone in a box in the loft
and there was 2 bits

1. it really didn't go how it was 'meant' to, how i thought it would when i bought the little stripy shorts, and it still isn't going that way now, and it can be hard to accept sometimes that you are not going to get that back and 2) i don't know if i will have any more babies

ANYWAY

i know lots of you know how i feel

i have mulberries stuck in my teeth

see?

morning, sleepover boys awake at 5.30am....which is fine except they were noisy.
We are going swimming with friends but my eye is a bit sore.

And having just read day of the triffids again, I am all irratioinally afeard of end-of-civilisation and swine flu etc....

quelle coincidence re worry dolls. dd2's worry doll (singular) ended up in the washing machine about two weeks ago because I wrapped it up in all the bedding when I was changing teh sheets.

Must be better quality than yours, fran. Head in tact, face missing. The thing has been lying in teh middle of the tea table for the last two weeks . Wish dd2 would get another worry and shift it.

Agree that being proactive and having a plan is Good. I like a plan of action.

bunny, no improvement at all. 'Erbalist says it takes a while for the gentle plants to start working .

uuurrrgghhh, fran, yes, I understand about not wanting a baby to be your last and one child's babyhood being a bit grey compared to the other's.

I asked dd2 last night, 'see when the herbalist told you well done and said how brilliantly you were doing with the medicine and dairy, how did that make you feel?'

And she said 'people say those sorts of things to you when they want you to carry on doing something so I knew she just wanted me to carry on with it'

I laughed. I like it when they're all sharp like that.

ha pointy! she is an Alfie Kohnite

Pointy, how old is she?
That is such a good answer

Pary sounds good Fran.
Dd2 is going to a party today (dh is takung her) at Bowood House (quite posh for a party). I think it is outdoor adventure playground.

Dd1 fears she is running out of books ro read as she has exhausted all of my Enid Blyton ones.

Any suggestions?
She has also finished Anne of Green Gables series and Railway Children.
Think she has a Michael Murpago from school.

Blueberry jam

Oh we've just got the worry dolls out again. DD1 is full of fears atm and I'm not sure what to do about it. Every bedtime she says 'promise me you won't leave' and I say 'of course I won't, that's the last thing I'd want to do, I don't want to go anywhere at all but here with you' and other reassuring things - but she comes down several times saying 'it's too quiet, i thought a burglar might have taken you'. She gets in such an anxious state about it and I have no idea where it's come from. We talked about it properly last night and she seems to be terrified that I'll disappear or be stolen at night. Is this a normal nearly 7 year old fear?

Honestly, I think that's the headline act fear isn't it? And therefore completely normal? From the first separation anxiety at months old, and thereafter in lots of different forms depending on their age?

DS1 and dd both thought they would be kidnapped by a burglar, ds2 had the decency to think it might be me not him! He was 6 or 7 I think. I used to say 'if you think I'd let some burglar come in here and steal me then both you and him have another think coming. Here in some graphic detail are a list of the dreadful things I would do to a person who had the TEMERITY to think they might kidnap me.' This worked for him, who enjoyed the whole idea hugely but wouldn't have worked for ds1 so is not really advice ifyswim.

I was rather rude last night. DH gave me the LOOK.

Lol, what did you do that was rude?

That's good. It's odd having such different girls - dd2 quite keen to move out and get her own place, spends her time planning solo trips and doesn't seem to worry about much. DD1 worries about everything in such exhausting detail. Last night it was 'if you die, I won't know what to do about dd2, she'll cry and there'll be nothing to say to make her feel better'. And I think blimey, she's really thought this through [unnerved]

Dp said 'why on earth would a burglar steal mummy, any sensible burglar would steal me instead because I'm more handsome and clever' and she seemed reassured by that

Oh Boco, she is a worrier

Dd1 is a bit like that.
She has also said she has no plnas to leave home (except uni) and may live with dd2.

Dd2 is going to have 63 children and sell them and marry her friend and live in a big house with her earnings from the baby selling

dd1 does worry about things - her latest is her baby tooth that has stoppped wobbling whilst the adult one has cme thorugh. She thinks of scenarios where it may wobble again, or how it could ocme out, all of which involve No Dentists.

Morning

Boco, I remember being about 7 or 8 and lying in bed one night. I heard my Dad go out of the front door so I went downstairs to find him. He had just nipped into the garage, which was attached to the house and he was rather bemused that I was concerned. I don't think I thought he was leaving us but I remember fretting about him not being there. That probably doesn't make sense but it might be similar to your DD - worrying about something with no real reason to. Perhaps something else is making her feel unsettled?

BTW when I was with my mum, I was totally different and spent all my time flipping through the Argos catalogue calculating how much it would cost me to move out of home & into my own place

hello

gosh i am finding it hard to decipher your blah - have been away too long. is everything okay? what happened to boco? was it a car or what? (well i could fone her which i will)

oh golly gosh - um, well, er, hmm.

an apple.

hello old BBBBbean, how are things?

things are good but insane and whirlin-ee!

i miss all this!

how are you?

blue furniture?

whirl-wind-ee