Frosty The Snow Mango....10/10 Club, all welcome. No really. Just come and talk about fruit and that!

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o yas, curdled milk

Ew... who's been farting in here?

Sprout
cabbage
bean hash (2)
carrots
cauli cheese
juice

Five-ish. Which is about five more than I usually do. I also have 2 bags of satsuma things (clementynes, perhaps) to work my way through.

You will be

You'd think so, wouldn't you? No such luck as yet, I'm afraid. I know you will be disappointed. I am

Oh good! Thought I was the only one not name changing. Hi SB!

Market today - bought bananas, clemen-tynes, apples, grapes, pears, plums, carrots, swede, cauli, onions, mushrooms, leeks.....

will let you know when I eat it all!

Have also failed to run 3 times this week. But I danced my little socks off at the toddler's christmas party

Going to bed now. Will catch up properly soon. I feel like I've been away f'rages!

soup
insomnia

cherry wine

Hello SB and Pink

Love the name, Mits, it is brilliant

Hello all

Have been doing better on the old F&V, managing baout 6 or 7 a day .

Dd2 had her play (Babushka) and thn we had the preschool one yesterday which was v v lvely.

Dd2 and i are off to a christmas market in a bit, looking for food!

Hi LR .

I might Bake some apples in a bit and have something warming.

I have tomato soup to finish off,

and the obligatory satsumas.

I have just had a bacon and sausage cob though.

cherry wine sounds very good.
We are off out for big family meal to lovely trattoria tonight. We haven't been out for a family meal for years!

found you, ya festive bastards!!

i am but a rumour at the mo as my laptop is buggered

am at work now

and again tomorrow

but then will be back in 5-7 working days...hopefully

and by then all my raspberry gin and blackberry vodka might be all drunk up...

dd2 was in her nursery xmas play - she was an angel- had not the outlaws (PIL) been there i would've cried with pride she was truly cutey mccuterson from cuteland

ds and dd1s play on tues...they are Elf Number Five and a child respectively...

i have had comments on my fitness and sleekness but the fact that dd2 has named one of her dolls davina means that perhaps there is Too Much of An Exercising Thing...

am eating grapes. i like all forms of them too, currants, raisins, sultanas. but not prunes. they are pants.

Yebbut prunes ain't grapes, they is plums.

Mayor, that funky fruity booze y7ou mentioned...wotcha doing this week?

Sorry, am crap at commenting atm. I read and absorb and think nice thoughts, then post utter shite.
But then, maybe nobody knows who I am anyway so it don't matter.

prunes is BAD tho innit!!

and i knows who you are

it would be nice to take a walk again my love but the weather is definitely working against us this month

i have not been to my allotment for far too long, i hope it has not all washed away

Prunes is nice!!

Wevver is just cold like. Nuffink I can't handle, but then I ain't no softie southerner

i can do cold. its WET that i don't like. do you live in a yurt perchance?

Doughnut
Xmas pudding cake
Marshmallow snowman (from the bakery)
Profiteroles (3)
Crumpets (2)
Carol Singing

Mulled wine (soon)

Hi lovely veggers. I have been awol as I have been stupidly busy. But I have realised I need this thread as it gives me a kick up the arse with the old fuh and vuh.

banana
oj
dried fruit
grapes
olives
cucumber
pepper
mushrooms

What a fab list you've got there SB

ah mulled wine....luuuuushhh....

am off to buy stilton and beer

cheesey boozey hugs all round

Are 4 year old boys generally a little brattish?

My lovely boy has turned into a stroppy, defiant, rude, argumentative and shouty monster. I want my lovely baby back. He does usually have phases of being a little, well, exuberant but this is miserable for both of us. Nothing works - I can ask him nicely to do things, tell him firmly, encourage/ cajole/ bribe , shout, whisper, smile but whatever I try, he either ignores me, says 'NO', refuses to do it or deliberately does it but very much in his own time. I'm finding myself making ridiculous threats, saying stupid things e.g. when my phone beeped on his 800th time out of bed last night, I told him it was Father Christmas texting to say he wouldn't be able to visit DS ... I did text FC back 10 mins later to say it was ok, babybunny was in bed and not shouting but FFS. What am I doing???

Oh, SB, I am sorry. It is hard when you are usually so very very close.

I don't know what to suggest that you probably haven't already tried. With DD (7) who is like this occasionally, I try the 'it is so nice when you help Mummy by being helpful and then we can do x or y' sort of thing. But I suspect you are doing that kind of thing anyway.

Do you think it might be pre Christmas stress and excitement?

I do think xmas may be part of this. There is lots of excitement and stress for both of us. Had a nice day today (probably because he stayed with my BIL while I went to the farmer's mkt) and did crafty stuff (with some shouting when he smeared paint all over the table cloth). We did snuggle on the sofa under blankets and watched The Snowman and have been for a run in the forest with friends.

Sweet potato chili (innocent veg pot = 3)
Watercress sausage (must count for something?)
Peas
Baked beans
Juice
Cherry cake

lol at festive bastards Mayo!

erm,

tomatoes
marmalade,
Green beans,
carrots
cauli
parnsips
Apple juice

orange marties
Mince pies

Oh shit. It ain't even christmas yet and I cannot eat well....