Will the commencement of WW3 be announced on GN ?

Our photograph albumns ( can't do without these)
A warm coat, ( hate being cold)
bottle of whisky (why not?)
Wind up radio (to stay connected)
DH ( well, can't leave him behind!)

A wind up radio and torch;
Photographs of family and friends;
My favourite fishing rod and a box of flies (in case we needed to eat if and when we get out of the bunker! But with my record currently we might need the miracle of the loaves and fishes to help it go around!);
The largest bottle of Oban I can get my hands on - and a crystal glass!;
Like roses, my warmest coat;
A bible and a book of Matt cartoons.

Presumably DH would be off squirting his fountain pen at the enemy, but if not, it goes without saying that he would head up the list.

Well,the pen is mightier than the sword, after all.

You have 6 things Greyduster .....humph! Not fair.

I don't know if I would head off to a bunker. Would WW3 be worth surviving? Sorry. Feeling negative today. Sigh... (wanders off shaking head but hoping others are full of beans)

It's not something I want to even think about either, it would keep me awake at night.

I am "bury my head" in the sand about this as I cannot do anything about it.

I got to agree with Jane10, I can't get on with anything.

Boris is in the FO.

Oops! Sorry roses - didn't read it properly! Now there's a dilemma! Better ditch the malt then .

needs some careful thought

There would be no mains electricity, no phones, no internet, no clean water. Using bottled gas in a bunker could be lethal.

So.

Water
Food
Wind up torch, several
Wind up Radio x 2 (so essential that a spare is important)
Lots of books
Chemical Toilet
Warm clothes
Blankets
Sleeping bag
Mattress
Comfy chair

BUT, and a big but for me, Mrs.P would never go into a bunker (claustrophobic), so I will have all those things indoors and join her under the kitchen table. (must get a kitchen table)

I suppose making light of such things seems trivial, but at the end of the day, there would be no other way to approach such a prospect. When DH was in the Army we were stationed at a large NATO base in the south of Holland. They would periodically go off on exercises to somewhere called The Bunker in Southern Germany. One day they were "scrambled" at very short notice, in the early hours, and off he went with his tin hat (and half a ton of other stuff, including a side arm). Oh, okay then. No time for the niceties. He came back around three weeks later and I said to him "I didn't know there were any exercises pending". He just gave me a look, a big, big hug and said "don't ask". It was much later that I found out it wasn't an exercise, it was a stand off on the Polish border. It shook me, I will admit. I had a friend who was at Rheindahlen garrison with her DH and she told me they ran an exercise at one point to see how quickly - or if - they could evacuate families from BAOR in the event of it all kicking off. I seem to remember the outcome wasn't encouraging. There was only one military threat then - there seem to be many more now. Sorry for the aside.

And anyway, if GandTea can have ELEVEN, I want my b****y malt back!!!

What goes around comes around. I remember thinking about this at a time when the USA and USSR were glowering at each other across the globe. We had a caravan standing in the drive which was usually stocked with enough basics for a few days away - water, bedding, tins, first-aid stuff - but it wouldn't have kept a family going for very long.
I also remember the Anderson shelter with the garden chairs, tins of beans, bottles of water, books and jigsaws, and the bucket in the corner. It didn't get much use - there was a communal shelter quite near which we went to a few times, but thank God not often.

Far more than five -

Water and water-treatment tablets
Chemical toilet
Tinned food and vitamin tablets
Warm and waterproof clothes and boots
Bedding
Wind-up torches and radios.
LED lights and spare batteries.
Matches
Lots of poly bags of various sizes
Books, paper, pens and pencils
String

And for when you emerge -
Weapons to defend your patch from usurpers
Vegetable seeds to start from scratch
Instruction books for building, farming, medecine, and any other subject you can lay hands on.

Well do you remember the 1 in 5 lectures and other stuff on the telly back in the Cold War? It would definitely NOT be worth surviving if anyone does then I would feel terribly sorry for their suffering.

4 bottles of wine

and a book on 'how to make your own wine whilst stuck inside a bunker

Crikey G&T no alcohol????

breeze

Sorry, got into semi-serious mode there. To return to the point here are my five -

Comfortable chair with warm rug
Non-mains lighting
Non-mains fridge full of food
Kindle, well charged up and loaded with several hundred good books
Chemical toilet

Plus number six -
All my family and friends complete with their own supplies.

Strange isn't it that some of us when faced with only five choices (well, six - or eleven!) would choose malt whisky and a bible over a chemical toilet and a fridge full of food. I suppose I should call myself a lightweight, but I think I'm just a pragmatist!

Elegran. your serious list had some important items like matches, water tablets etc. that I missed.

Seeds etc. are a very good idea, one would hope that life would start again.

Oh I was too serious in my post. Forget that!

Loads of books
Good red wine
Loads of candles
Lots of warm sweaters preferably cashmere
Lots of warm socks - company in Devon do a good line
Lots of high tog duvets and comfortable pillows
Wind up thing to play music
Tinned food - yuk! But needs must.
Some sort of walky talky as radio won't be functioning
That's to start with.
I would probably last a month on that after which I would have the screaming ad-dabs.

Maybe, if time permitted, we could equip ourselves with a good boy scout? They'd know what to do!

You have to have two, jane so that you can rub them together to make a fire - then you won't need matches!

I really don't like him at all, but needs must, so I'd take Bear Grylls!

He'd probably be running the country along with that smug Prof Brian Cox!