Shipwrecked- which 3 possessions do you want for your desert island?

War and Peace
Beethoven's 9th Symphony-last movement
photo of me and late DH, taken by DS2 in our sunny conservatory when we were fit and smiley in our 50s/60s

the book is long and complex and interesting on many levels
the music uplifting and beautiful and has human voices
the photo is a great one of DH, he has a lovely smile and makes me smile to look at it

I would take-
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.
Lots of gentle humour and sun oozing from every page

I don't feel like dancing by the Scissor Sisters.
Playing over the ice rink at Somerset House, where I met my late Mum for afternoon Christmas tea to swap presents.

A photo of our three 'Children' at a rare Christmas meet in Australia a couple of years ago. All playing the fool, acting like 5 year olds, despite all being in their 30s, and aiming to ruin a nostalgic family snap for their dear mother's photo album!😡

The diary of Anne Frank
Any track from Dirty Dancing
My dog

Never mind the book/record/picture - my 3 would have to be

My Teeth, My hearing aids, My glasses

Without them I could not appreciate the statutory things.

😂

I would be too busy carving myself a boat to escape to read a book and my efforts with the boat making would be too noisy to hear any music. Not sure about the photo - maybe one of my family to speed up my efforts to get home!!

As usual on here, not everybody is playing by your rules ixion!
Mine are:
Book: Pride and Prejudice
Song: (Whats the Story) Morning Glory - I want the whole album though
Photograph: a group photo of all my large family, taken when the non UK based brother and sister and families were over, my husband was alive and my children were small - happy days

Mine would be:
A comprehensive book about the flora and fauna of the island (so I knew what was safe to eat and what dangers there were!!).
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.
A family photo.

My mobile phone has all sorts of music and books on it...do they count. Also has photos. Oh and I can call to be rescued....hahaha

Has to be
The Bible
Amazing Grace (full straight version with no trills)
Photo of all the extended family together

Too many books to choose just one, same with music. These choices would just be impossible for me. A photo of my DH and daughter. (Can I have a photo of my lovely cats as well?) What I would really certainly want are my phone (though it wouldn't last long without a charger and an electricity supply) and my glasses, and a good supply of my painkillers.

Brahms' 4th Symphony
The biggest dictionary ever
Family photo

None of that. Just my iPhone. I’ve got everything I need!

Book - To kill a mockingbird.
Track - Shine on you crazy diamond by Pink Floyd
Picture -My son.

Book - Tolkiens Lord of the Rings
Track - Dont waste my time Status Quo
Picture - Son, Daughter in law, Grandson, Granddaughter.

Book - Three men in a boat, Jerome K Jerome
Track - Lakme, Delibes
Photo - Christmas morning 2020, our bedroom both children and GC’s opening stockings

Book: Thud by Terry Pratchett

Music: The Messiah by G F Handel

Photograph: Family photo taken when my parents celebrated their golden wedding.

Am I naive, or are those who think they can use ( and charge) their phones on a desert island even more so?

The one track from Messiah if I couldn't have the whole thing; Oh thou that tallest good tidings to Zion.

Jane Eyre - discovered it aged 13, loved it and it became my fave book of all time.

Prokofiev - Montagues and Capulets (Dance of the Knights) - my fave piece of classical music.

Photo of my lovely dog playing on the beach in his younger days. (He’s now 10.)

Complete works of Shakespeare
One track? Doesn't work for classical music. Turangalila-Symphonie by Messaien
Photograph: husband in his glory days

Book: “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson, in the hope that I will actually learn something.

Music: Bach’s Widerstehe doch der sünde, played by Vikingur Olaffson. Absolutely sublime and calming.

A photo of the family.

Great Expectations, a recording of Ravel's String Quartet by my son's quartet and a photo of my children taken four years ago at a performance my daughter was taking part in in London.