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

Book - The Bible

Music - Any song by Meatloaf

Photo - My wedding day.

and can I take a jar of Beetroot please?

Tom's Midnight Garden

7 Tears by the Goonbay Dance Band

Photo of my dog

Book would be Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
Music Can you Hear the People Sing from Les Miserables ( to uplift my mood!)
Photo of my family

The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn
Insomnia by Faithless
A photo of DH and I with elder son, partner and their daughter, younger son and my daughter

Vivaldi 4 seasons, book any collection of Elizabethan/Jacobean comedies, photo would be last Halloween (before the first lockdown) a lovely picture of all the grandchildren holding pumpkins of various sizes and colours (even the baby!) in a gorgeous autumnal field.

A rubber dingy.
Tooth paste.
A large family photo.

Oops not 2020, they weren’t here, 2019, two flipping years ago now.?

A book of poisonous plants and insects, so I could avoid them.

I would not bother about music, unless I could also have something to play it on, but I would like a hatchet for chopping firewood and making a boat.

In that connection DH would be much more useful than his photo.

Great day of mixed fortunes. Wonderful news that after 5 years on medication for breast cancer I can now stop taking it. Felt quite euphoric so drove to the local park for a short walk to gather my thoughts, only to find a parking penalty notice for £25 when I returned. Even that couldn’t spoil my day!
Anyone else want to share good and bad news within a few hours?

Great news Pomsky even if off topic ? so it deserves a response! Congratulations!

Wuthering heights the book.
Lipstick.
Picture of my 4 grandchildren.

Sunscreen, snorkelling mask and flippers.

The complete works of Dickens - I’d go mad if I ran out of something to read. With blank pages between each novel that I could write on using the stub of pencil cunningly concealed in my bra.

I’ll pass on the music, as I’d end up hating anything I’d to listen to over and over again.

A photo of the whole family, all together.

Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor..no matter how many times I read it I still find something new..and I can never remember 'who dunnit'.

Music track so much harder, depends on my mood as to a favourite. ? oh ok Gene Genie by David Bowie.

Photograph has to be of my children and grandchildren. Don't actually have one of them all together so need to get that sorted first.

Can I book my trip now or do have to wait till l**kd**n lifted?

Kate Atkinson Book
A fluffy throw to lay on
Flair gun.

Book - Nations Favourite Poems put together by Griff Rhys Jones, gives me hours of pleasure and can read over and over again.
Music- anything by Nina Simone, especially ‘My Baby just Cares for Me’.
Photograph- taken in 2019 of the whole family from all corners of the globe in our garden, in front of the tree house our four boys had just built for all the children.

A Terry Pratchett book but which one? Definitely one with Mort in.
Scattered Black and Whites by Elbow
Photo of my daughter and granddaughter. To celebrating my granddaughter's 16th birthday last December, they went walking with Llamas in Yorkshire (snip of the photo). They look so happy.

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(Based, unimaginatively, on a long-standing radio programme!).
You are allowed
One Book
One Single track of Music
One photograph

What would you take, and why?

Encyclopaedia Britanica
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Photo of my family with my dog.

Book would be a jotter & pen
Music Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke
Photograph of my entire family

Book- Robinson Crusoe
Music - I will survive ; Gloria Gaynor
Photo- My Grandson

What? No cheese.

Book - the Bible
Music The whole of Handel's Messiah, or if I can't have that, Pachabel's Canon.
Photograph - All 16 members of my family. Very boring, aren't I ?

An endless supply of all-over moisturiser would be my first priority, or within a few days I’d be itching like mad, not to mention resembling a prehistoric scaly lizard.

My Kindle, pre-loaded with as much as it will take.

And of course a solar charger for it, assuming that such a thing will be available by then.
With nothing to read I’d go completely mad within a month, and probably offer myself as breakfast to any passing shark.

Charles Dickens’ complete works - so many characters, narratives and sub plots.
‘Heard it through the grapevine’ - makes me feel like a teenager again plus it reminds me of the fit male in the advert.
Family photograph for obvious reasons.

If I could update Plomley’s list:
a solar-powered iPad (full of books and photographs) with internet connection
flip flops with lots and lots of bling - the tackier the better
a wide-brimmed hat from which an ankle-length mosquito net could be draped

Witzend you could always take your knitting!