Shouting guava guava guava shouting mega mega white bean - 10 / 10 thread

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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

wow, not just back stroke, enthusiastic back stroke

I can't go in a straight line when I swim back stroke.

DH has naffed off to London today and will be watching Blur in the next hour or so

Baby Lemur has a bath with his Dad every night. So when it was me doing it tonight, he kept looking over my shoulder to see where he was! Luckily he wasn't upset.

I have always found it dofficult to accept 3 tbsp of peas/carrots as one portion. That is a lot. 2 would be normal. I fret about exaggerating my intake.

Well, when I say fret...

sultanans
bananas
cucumber
tomatoes
much much lettuce (1.5)
aubergines (prob only 0.5)
strwaberries

1. Hmm. And it's Friday and I am on holiday (yippee) and I will mainly be having wine and olives tonight while ignoring the apples.

My friend has one child (she's 7) and she is very demanding. That sounds mean, but I can't think of another way to say it. She's very bright and chatty, so always wants to chat and discuss ANYTHING. That's a good thing, but exhausting for her mum.

yes, bunny, having children is very hard work, especially when they are little

I remember when my two were very small and a mum saying 'oh it gets harder when they get older'.

No it bloody doesn't.

Oh, what olives Pointy?

I adore the green Halkidiki ones. The salty crunchiness is DIVINE.

I could eat mucho peas. They are my favourite veg.

I just buy a jar of the cheapish sainsbury green ones usually. Not sure what variety. I spalsh out occasionally.

I did an essay on local, small-scale olive growing when I lived in Provence, you know . Doesn't that sound wanky

Blur

I love peas. And olives.

Where's Guad gone?

Children definitely do NOT get harder when they get older. Thank goodness. Can you imagine if that first year was the easiest bit? No-one would have more than 1 child, would they? All that lack of sleep and constant BF/ bottles, crying, laundry. And now... DS sleeps, doesn't wander up to me and lunge at a breast every 3 minutes in the hope of a quick snack, shouts at me when he's cross instead of throwing himself on the floor and wailing (well, he still does that sometimes) and we can occasionally get through the day with only 1 outfit each. Hooray for 3 year olds!

Point, I had no idea you were so wanky sophisticated

I have rediscovered Dodgy. The band. I am reliving the 90s.

I am very sophisticated.

And you must be very young as I can't even remember a band called dodgy

Wanky indeed

I hated olives until 10 months ago, and now I adore them.

Where is Guad? Haven't seen her for a few days.

If it's good enough for you, it's good enough for me ................

I saw them supporting Blur once and spent the rest of that summer sporting a t-shirt with 'dodgy bird' emblazoned across my chest

I am rather picky about olives - good ones are delicious but tinned ones are quite vile.

I can't for the life of me remember what else Dodgy sang.

I remember those t-shirts

pointy - I have a wanky olive question, if you don't mind. Do green and black olives come from the same tree, they are just at a different state of ripeness?

Staying out for the summer

playing games in the rain .........

Ah yes, I remember.

Didn't Denise Van Outen go out with the lead singer?

oh god i think it DOES get harder as they get older
you mean i am meant to be finding this bit easier?
blimey i think the baby bit is so STRAIGHTFORWARD

lol having said that ds2 is still awake and roaming round the house with a dustpan
he shows no signs of slowing down, having had his nap from 3.30 till 5 pm

Well at least he's making himself useful Fra

Older is easier, definitely. And more interesting imo, which is maybe why I find it easier. However am grateful to have welcomed home ds's today so that dd can now return to sharing the interest around. I'm generous like that.

yes, where is Guad? She's disappeared after her swine flu publicity stunt. I expect she's in a tv studio putting together a special broadcast from Mexico City on licking.

Apple
raspberries

Wow. That's bad. That's 2.

Where did you live in Provence? And why? And why were you writing essays while you lived there? I'd like to live in Provence. I've never been to Provence of course. I'd like to live anywhere at all that anyone ever mentions. It's like a tic. I am currently trying persuade dh that we should go and live in LA. Never been there either btw.

Wassup, ahundred? You talking to yourself again?

Your post about wanting to move to places that you have never been to really made me chuckle.

I wondered if Guad is wearing big shades and diving out of the way of journo's lurking outside her house

well i will look after everyone's babies
it's a doddle compared to 6 year olds