Preparedness for when

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I wonder if there would be a place for old fashioned party games too? they seem to have gone out of vogue but birthdays and Christmases always involved childrens games like 'SQUEAK PIGGY SQUEAK' and 'MUSICAL CHAIRS' which I remember the adults joining in with gusto and things like CHARADES, SARDINES,etc. I think too that entertainment would have to include things like games of cards, board games, games of skill like snooker or darts as well?

And dancing? that always was a major part of parties and celebrations, might that make a comeback?

ivyleaf

How lovely Lyn :j

What beautiful memories mila

mardatha Funny you should mention crisps as what you want to eat when you're having a bad time with the ME. When I was first ill I hadn't much appetite at all, but when I occasionally did want to eat, I craved ready salted kettle chips (had to be the branded ones) and iced ring doughnuts with hundreds-and-thousands on top. I don't think I ate anything else at all for about a month, and I slept about 21 hours a day. (so there wasn't much time for eating anyway, lol.)

OH is crashing around upstairs - he says he's "having a sort-out". Goodness knows the box room needs one, but I fear he will just be moving stuff around rather than getting rid of anything. Still, that's a topic for a different thread.

ETA Just seen your post Lyn. I always dreaded party games. I didn't mind Pass the Parcel, but I particularly hated those like Squeak Piggy Squeak because I hated being blindfolded. I'm afraid if those games came back I'd have to develop a strategic migraine or something (not belittling migraine, I've had it often enough myself.)

Cappella

Some really lovely ideas here I can sing - am in a choir and used to sing at a folk club years ago. And I love telling stories, long, short and tall? Would that count? I can't dance for toffee though - would rather be in a kitchen washing up or making tea for the dancers.

MrsLurcherWalker - what a brilliant present. Camellias grow really well up here but not sure real tea would cope with the cold?

I don't know much about ME I'm afraid, will google it in a minute but I've just spent months feeling exhusted for different reasons and even knitting seemed beyond me for weeks. I can crochet though and used to manage a few minutes a day making granny squares. It seemed easier than knitting at the time.

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I'm going to cuddle it whenever there's a frost!!!

Apparently they grow very well here if they have a sunny sheltered position and ericaceous soil, we'll see is all I can say, I'll give a really good go though, real tea from my own bush???LOVE IT!!!

NewShadow

I'm thinking an inverted wonder bag may play a part during the frosts.

GreyQueen

Cappella wrote: »

I don't know much about ME I'm afraid, will google it in a minute but I've just spent months feeling exhusted for different reasons and even knitting seemed beyond me for weeks. I can crochet though and used to manage a few minutes a day making granny squares. It seemed easier than knitting at the time.

I've had it for 30 + years. Got glandular fever, as do an awful lot of young adults, and never properly recovered.

I've never been bed-bound with it (although I once slept for 29 hours solid) but at my worst, aged about 21, I would spend my entire day's energy just getting up and dressed, and would collapse into a chair with my brain stuttering and not being able to form a coherant thought or marshal the energy to do anything.for.the.whole.day. And every muscle seemed to hurt, as if I'd been run through a clothes mangle. And I'd catch every darned bug around, and fall harder and faster with it than others, and take thrice as long to recover.

Years ago, I was talking to a consultant endocrinologist at the top teaching hospital in our region (world famous place). She told me that in her opinion, ME is not one illness but a group of illnesses presenting with some similarity of symptoms. And that science does not presently understand what these illnesses are, and that there is little-to-no research into them, so there will not be any breakthroughs in a timely manner. She thought it might easily be several decades before medical science understood what was happening in us so-called ME sufferers.

The theory that there is a group of illnesses rather than one, might offer an explanation about the wide variation in ME symptoms experienced by different sufferers.

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dragonette wrote: »

I would happily take on the role of tending and treating animals, as long as someone else killed and prepared them when it was time.

I could oblige, but it's rather a long way to travel, just to slaughter a few animals.

NewShadow

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I could oblige, but it's rather a long way to travel, just to slaughter a few animals.

Shhhh...

You're ruining my illusion that come SHTF we'll coincidentally all be in the same building (or train/plane/highstreet) and instantly recognise each other just in time to co-ordinate the defence against the hordes...

GreyQueen

Hell, if I see Bob, I'm siding with the zombie hordes........:p

Nargleblast

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm going to cuddle it whenever there's a frost!!!

Apparently they grow very well here if they have a sunny sheltered position and ericaceous soil, we'll see is all I can say, I'll give a really good go though, real tea from my own bush???LOVE IT!!!

Mrs LW. I think you have just established what would be the desirable currency in a post-SHTF world. Better get the shotguns ready to repel invaders!