I'd be very upset, because my kids and family are far off. But hell, we'd run out of coconut cream... then gradually various other things. But life here is much more sustainable than the Hebrides - where life continued on remote islands for years without much contact. And I have about 40 cans of coconut cream. Yes, all things run out, but we'd adapt, and there is plenty of food, and a lot of knowledge. Medicines would be the worst, as there is actually a finite limit to what you can cure with muttonbird oil. I wonder if it would do as a diesel substitute? Compared to a city it would be a holiday camp.
And anyway tonight's supper was a very very rich wallaby strips in a coconut cream sauce, and some of our 50kg of rice... and veg from the garden.
My tomatoes are nearly over... and my latest book came out yesterday. And that's all the news.
What's the name of the new book, please?
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Burdens of the dead. It's ARC has been out from Baen for a bit, and so I think has the e-book version
ReplyDeleteThanks. I'll go buy it soon, a nice big book for my holidays.
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Do you regularly meet and interact with more people or fewer on the island than back in SA? I don't mean folks at a bus stop, but those you have dinner, go diving, folk dance with, etc.
ReplyDeleteOh my word. It's much friendlier than the friendliest place we lived in SA. Sure we've made an effort, but the island needs people and if you want to be part of things (without making yourself a pain, I suppose) they're only too glad to have you. Look, I am two km from the next house. Days will go by in which we (well, mostly me) don't go out, don't get visitors. But it's a rare day I don't chat to one of my friends - possibly on the phone. Going into town... it's near impossible to get in and out of our little supermarket without chatting to 3-4 people that know you well. Social stuff: Well, that ups and downs. Scottish Dancing every week, board games, church. We probably go out at some times of year much than others and we entertain a bit. But certainly for me - less so Barbs - a lot of my socializing is around the the friends I dive with, fish with, go spearing with, shoot with, muttonbird with, climb with etc. They're a varied set, although some people are common to most of the activities. Barbs has her CWA and Meals-on-wheels and parish council stuff too, which often seems to involve social bits. There's RSL for me. I'm quite glad of bad weather, because removes temptation to have fun with my friends. But there's a lot of 'you need a hand with x' And we can share in Y if you give a hand(like sausages). It's country life the way I imagine it was 40 years back.
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