Following a
conversation in the kitchen this morning in which we mused upon the dilemma of
what to eat if the shops become bare – ignoring the rather throwaway suggestion
of consuming our own effluence (which would at least save on toilet paper) - we made some decisions.
My mother-in-law would survive on the
countless packets of biscuits which she’s been accumulating in her cupboard since 2009, Mr
SDS would tuck into his many pairs of cheap sunglasses which he feels compelled
to get each time he passes one of those carousels in the garden centre, and I would feast upon my stash
of 2H pencils (they last longer) washed down with Permanent White gouache.
Sorted!
Louise has bought a book on foraging.
ReplyDeleteNot that we'll be allowed out to forage.
Indeed. There's always the garden - hoping I won't have to resort to eating my worms...
DeleteCannibalism is the future!
ReplyDeleteBut I'm vegetarian! Can we eat dust?
DeleteDust is maybe lacking in nutrients? How about grass?
DeleteAh, good idea! Plus I've got a box of grass seed in the shed. That's basically rice, isn't it?
DeleteWhen all that's left is a smear of tomato puree on the back of a Jacob's cream cracker, that's when we'll just have to eat each other.
ReplyDeleteI'm worried for all the pets out there...
DeleteNot a lot of meat on my cat :)
DeleteHmmm - and even less so once you've stolen all its tins of Felix Chicken in Jelly...
DeleteI left a jokey comment last night about all the deer and badgers on the hill behind our house but it didn't post (I seem to be having problems on blogger!) - Kind of glad it didn't now as not feeling quite so jokey about it all now. Perhaps the worms and the tomato puree smear it will have to be (although I draw the line at dust).
ReplyDeleteThey'd probably taste alright with tomato puree... but I love them too much!
DeleteDark humour is what gets me through dark times so I hope it doesn't get misunderstood! (There was a moment just after my mum died, my sister and I with our other halves standing in the hospital waiting to go through all the harrowing processes that followed and we ended up laughing about something wholly inappropriate. It must just be a release valve!) I'm very happy to receive jokey comments, or not, whatever the circumstances so please never worry, I know we are all caring folks.
Yes, it common to descend into hysterical laughter at such times - It's happened to me too and you just hope it doesn't get misunderstood. I have been loving some of the cartoons and memes doing the rounds as just what we need - As you say, coming from caring souls, it shouldn't be seen as anything other that a distraction from all the scary news. I really miss all the 24/7 Brexit coverage now!
DeleteI know - missing Brexit news, who'd have thought it?! Distraction is key at the moment I think.
DeleteHa. I use this image when teaching Nazi economic policy at A Level. Guns or butter? Toilet roll or butter maybe...
ReplyDeleteSA, that's brilliant. I wish my history teacher had been as imaginative as you.
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