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to live of the land and survive for a year .how ell do you think you.d do.
or maybe a island sumink like that.

Pretty good and I would lose so much weight without all the refined sugar I eat...lol have to say that I am cr*p at making cheese, the couple of times I tried, you could bounce it off the floor...the only breathing thing that would eat it the damn stuff was the dog.

Sue x

No problem. Done it for a few months and it was great. You slip into a routine - the basics are food, water, shelter and Emmerdale.

After that, it's plain sailing. Most of your time is taken up by seeking food one way or another and you soon learn what is edible and what gives you a dose of unpeasantness. It actually gives you a whole new outlook on consumerism and the banality of modern day life. Everyone should try it.

Show off Eldrick...lol I would need a source of milk cos I am addicted :-(((

Milks not a problem - as long as you aren't bothered what it comes from, lol

I'm not sure I'd be any good at it tbh. I'm the worst kind of hypocrite and couldn't kill an animal myself, so it would be a vegetarian year for me I'm afraid ! lol x.

i think my hubby and son would love it.[especially if they can take the lurcers .lolol.]i.d like it as long as they do all the work and i could just do fishing with a piece a line and a hook .no maggots .boffs .

Having been born & brought up in the countryside I think I would be ok on the foraging side + milking ... can cook in ashes, build shelter (Girl Guide style) not like to kill animals/birds but if hungry enough could.

The problem would be medication for asthma & arthritis ... so think I should opt out of trying. lol

hmmmm.i.d need me antibiotics..i could get a supply just in case.lol.

I think I'd be ok.... once over the shock of having to do it. I think we all have experiences which suggest that if we need to survive, then survive we will.... to choose to live like that for a year as a social experiment, I think I would cave in after 24 hours, lol

But to have to do it, cos there is no other choice, then yes, I would be able to do it as long as I could whinge a bit! ;¬))

Love

Daff xxxx

Well I'd manage a bit better now than I would have done before a recent charity shop find.
It's amazing what you can eat from the hedgerows. If I can find a clean source for some of those 'weeds' I would certainly give them a try.

My problem would be protein.
I don't like meat much and certainly wouldn't want to eat something I'd seen wandering around.... Might have to be eggs unless Sue can master that cheese making and pass a bit over.

I could trade it for some nettle soup perhaps....?

Gwyn

I would hate every minute of it and wouldn't cope at all. I hated camping when I was a teenager. I'm just not made for roughing it.

Gwynne

if i had to live of the land, then i wouldnt have a chance, i couldnt kill an animal skin it and eat it lol, i could pick berrys and eat them tho lol x

Just thought about the lack of running hot water.....

Perhaps I'd better opt out of this chance to rough it.

Gwyn

closes mouth tight

i refuse to eat bambi's mummy

well the next meet will be on a lil island in the tropics.you all gotta come.stray can eat bananas .im going for lobster .lol

Now you talking ... warm & dry ... easy on the joints = no need for arthritis meds

and i could get hubby and son to do all the dirty work .so we get the best bits lol.

I'd be lucky if I lasted 2 days. I couldn't and wouldn't kill any thing but I'm sure they wouldn't think the same about me.

I've done it to a degree many times.
I don't drive and when I lived in the Shetlands, our croft house was 5 fields and 3 miles from the nearest bus stop.
We had running water - but only cold water. No bathroom, just a bucket in a shed outside.
I used to have 'strip' washes and wash the laundry by hand. I had a 'perpetual' lamb stew on the go constantly, adding things to it every day - till eventually there was very little lamb left!
Once I ran out of stew, so gathered mussels & seaweed from the shore, and lived on that for 3 days. After that I caught fish and sneaked some of the Kale the landlady grew for her chickens!

Later on, living in very rural Essex, and working as ag labs, OH and I rescued a duck - which got depressed, so we got him a mate. She kept laying her eggs in the woods and coming back with up to 14 ducklings in tow! We had a choice - overcrowding, selling or eating! We ate - delicious they were - from garden to oven in 15 minutes!
We also grew our own veggies, and I would make jams & jellies from wild fruits - Rowan Jelly was a favourite.
We had a friend who brought us 'road kill' - okay some of it had shot in it - but that could have been an accident! LOL