Reliance on Stuff?

What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

My mind was a complete blank until I saw an image of books.:

1. Books – all the books

Then as a writer who uses a computer or phone to write:

1. Pens. Lots of pens. All the pens. All the colours. Whenever I see pens I can hear my Frister saying “you do not need more pens”, as if she were standing behind me.

As a cat mother:

1. Cats. All the cats, all the colours, all the shapes, sizes, and ages.

All numbered one?

Because the buggy Jetpack app that we’re cursed with won’t allow you to start a list with any other number than one.

If I do a line feed after the number one, it unindents and removes the number 2. if I type 2. it won’t indent. Sigh.

So the stuff

I’m sure there are loads and loads of objects I would struggle without. A sharp knife maybe? But then my husband is very sweet and ancient humans sharpened flints, so I probably could do without a knife. 🤣

I literally couldn’t think of anything that if I had to manage without it, I wouldn’t be able to work around it somehow, after a lot of hair pulling. Which might make a brush handy, unless I can pick up a hedgehog and use that. Seems a bit rude though.

There is much in the way of useful stuff around nowadays: fridges; freezers; ovens; vacuum cleaners; hair dryers; straighteners; cars; and on and on. I’m grateful for it all. Though as a non- cook I’m never going to be moved by a lemon zester or garlic crusher.

Only three things suggests a more natural life though. Imagine the closeness of sitting around a camp fire storytelling at night, wrapped in blankets, in the fresh air, watching the moon. Instead of going indoors, locking all the locks and turning on the security cameras. All we need is a moat and we’re right back in the middle ages!

Blankets!!!! I do need blankets, I feel the cold. I guess you use animal skins though. I see the sense of it, kill for food only, waste nothing. But shudder!

However:

If there was one thing I definitely would not even vaguely consider keeping – it would be this infuriating app.

Big love – great week – be stubbornly happy

Deb xx