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

Book: Something about survival by Bear Grylls in very large print! (no reading glasses)
Music: Rolling Stones
Photo: Would not be able to choose which family photo so I'd have to take one of deceased family guinea pigs.

The latest James Patterson Novel
Jeff Becks version of Halleujah
Xmas 2011 family photo (the last one we took all together before I lost my husband)

complete D-I-Y for beginners,
Handel's water music,
photo of my 2 sons aged 3 & 4 sitting in a washing basket, screaming with laughter (now in their 30's)

Book: ‘Bleak House’, Charles Dickens
Music: (will I have my old wind-up gramophone?). Judy Garland singing ‘You’ll never walk alone’. I have it on a 78.
Photo: A photo from our Christmas gathering of all my children, partners and grandchildren.

Any Patricia Scanlan book
Love Reign O'er Me by The Who
Picture of all my dogs ( past& present)

Book - The Bible

Music - Clair de Lune

Photograph - Welsh mountains range

Book would be Robinson Crusoe or a surviving manual.
I would swap music for a fishing rod.
And lastly a wok for cooking the fish and other food that I find in.

Complete works of Oscar Wilde, who understood every human emotion.

Your Song by Elton John to remind me that once all we needed was love.

Photograph of my children in young adulthood laughing together.

However, I am reminded by this thread of the late great Joyce Grenfell, who said that, should she suffer a house fire, the two things she would rescue first (after people and animals) would be her furry bedroom slippers and her photograph album. Only one photo is a very mingy allowance!

rowyn

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

Rowyn Well yes but don’t be such a spoil sport!

One book and one music track would last me all of about 6 hours and that's assuming I'd have some way of listening to the track. A photo would be pointless, there's no-one I'd particularly want to keep looking at because it would just be reminding me that they're not there with me.

So, after reading the book and listening to the track a time or two (assuming I could), apart from burning the book, which I would find really hard to do because I was brought up to respect books, everything would be useless to me.

I forgot to say why! Pickwick Papers is the least depressing of Dickens's works. Not much of a recommendation? Damn me with faint praise? In fact it's a funny, happy book and Mr Pickwick is a thoroughly good man with strong principles.

A friend of mine used to say that her dad's favourite epithet was, "Tolerance is the only virtue." The song lyrics are about tolerance. Paloma Faith certainly has individual style! ?

Family photo is obvious.

The French Gardener by Santa Montefiore. I love all her books.

As it Seems by Lily Kershaw. Just my latest favourite track after hearing it on a film.

My grand daughter's photo. Her cheeky face makes me smile.

My book would have to be some sort of survival manual.
I think any sort of music would be too depressing in that situation. Anyway, what would I play it on? I suppose any CD would be useful for reflecting the sun at passing aircraft.
My photo would be of all the family round the dining table at Christmas- the first time we had all been together for months.

My I pad in with all my music fully charged , mascara and tena pads ?

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Make Your Own Kind of Music sung by Paloma Faith or Mama Cass
Photo of big family gathering from two years ago but the newest grandchild was still inside her mum.

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.

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.

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

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.)

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

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

Book: Thud by Terry Pratchett

Music: The Messiah by G F Handel

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

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

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