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You are marooned on a desert island

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Flossieturner Sat 19-Nov-16 16:37:06

And the essential Genie appears and tells you that you can have 3 food items and one drink item, to last you for the rest of the time you are stuck here.

Leaving all practicalities aside, because this Island just so happens to have a fully equipped kitchen, what will you choose?

Me: Olive Oil, Potatoes, ice cream and Tea.

Jalima Mon 21-Nov-16 19:32:50

I will still stick with Brie I think

Penstemmon I am not good at being delegated grin

Penstemmon Mon 21-Nov-16 18:19:12

Oh no good me being practical.. I can organise and delegate with huge success but I am less anble to actually 'do' stuff! grin

M0nica Mon 21-Nov-16 17:55:33

Oh, in that case.........

Ana Mon 21-Nov-16 17:48:20

But it doesn't matter about stockists - the genie is supplying everything!

Jalima Mon 21-Nov-16 17:31:17

No stockists of Norbury Blue near me (just checked) so I will have to ask for Somerset Brie.

Jalima Mon 21-Nov-16 17:28:34

Pentstemmon grin

and there was me being practical!

Penstemmon Mon 21-Nov-16 17:20:49

A lovely claret wine

Norbury Blue

baguette

Mille Feuille

Thank you..when may I go?

Jalima Mon 21-Nov-16 17:15:50

I am going to make my own musical instruments.

May I take a Swiss Army knife with me please?

Ana Mon 21-Nov-16 16:57:11

Yes, not a desert island and not marooned either! What's more, we can have anything we want...

Not much of a game, is it? grin

Jalima Mon 21-Nov-16 16:26:01

So a desert island is a 'deserted island' not a sand cay with a palm tree then?
If it's tropical it will have a supply of water and lush vegetation and perhaps pineapples ...

well, if there were regular airdrops I may want to be rescued. I thought we were supposed to be cast away.

Flossieturner Mon 21-Nov-16 14:18:48

As it so happens, you have been put on this Island as a reward for all the good things you have done in your life. Therefore it can be desert, deserted, tropical even the Isle of Grain if you wish.

The genie only wanted to know your three favourite food stuffs to get you started. She knew that you were all enterprising enough to magic up accommodation, grow fruit and herbs, rescue your piano, goats, harp, chickens big cooking pots, tuba and dinner companion. But that's a whole ' other thread..

M0nica Mon 21-Nov-16 13:53:11

Who said the island had to be tropical, only deserted. Personally I would opt for a small deserted offshore island in a temperate climate where those that deserted it had left stone-built cottages I could set up home in. In which case bread cheese and water would be a distinct possibility. Is there any reason why the foodstuffs couldn't come in as regular airdrops?

Jalima Mon 21-Nov-16 12:06:51

Are we all there or each on our own island?

Apples?
Is that one of your three foodstuffs Flossieturner?
Because apples don't grow in the tropics wink

Flossieturner Mon 21-Nov-16 12:01:54

The Gransnet Army, arms folded legs akimbo with rolling pin ready will soon stop the world invading our island.

The rolling pin is, of course,to make a nice apple pie, for visitors.

Greyduster Mon 21-Nov-16 09:25:56

Trouble is, flossie the world has a nasty habit of catching up with you wherever you happen to be hiding!!

Flossieturner Mon 21-Nov-16 09:12:03

Personally, I am going to stay there until the world has turned back to the way I want it to be.

hulahoop Sun 20-Nov-16 20:52:30

How long are we there ?
I would want a chicken to lay eggs
A coconut tree
Seed potatoes

Greyduster Sun 20-Nov-16 20:18:33

A goat once ate my father's overalls! He wasn't on a desert island!

Nanna58 Sun 20-Nov-16 19:18:15

Crab,salad, mayonnaise and champagne. Bliss!

Jalima Sun 20-Nov-16 18:56:57

I am hoping that it is not an actual 'desert', rather a 'tropical island' otherwise I will never find any coconuts, pineapples, fresh running water etc!

Goats eat anything.

Some good tips from Lt Cdr Paul Hart
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/How-to-survive-on-a-desert-island/

Actually, can I add Lt Cdr Hart to my list please?

Ana Sun 20-Nov-16 18:45:41

But what would the poor goat eat on a desert island? And what if it got ill? Oh dear, perhaps I'm over-thinking this...confused

Jalima Sun 20-Nov-16 18:09:41

What about a nanny goat? Or are there wild goats on the island already, I could learn to milk one to vary the diet.

Pittcity Sun 20-Nov-16 17:28:57

Chocolate, crisps, cheese and wine please. None of this healthy stuff as who cares if there is no hope of rescue?

Ana Sun 20-Nov-16 16:35:21

We'd need a pen/cil and paper so we could send messages in bottles after drinking the contents!

Greyduster Sun 20-Nov-16 16:33:09

If we are allowed anything we want can I have a piano, please? ?