Survivors

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Why am I watching this when I know it's just going to freak me out??

Pennies - well, I went for coast for greater mobility by sea when the petrol runs out (or when DP and I have crashed all the cars we find; whichever happens soonest). The flaw in this might be availability of fresh water, as by the time the rivers reach the sea, it would probably be filthy. Hilly inland area (but still with easy access to sea) might be better for fresh water; I may have to concede to DP's Wales plan. Wales would actually be quite good, as there would be lots of sheep to take over, and I would be able to knit all day.

Hmmm...definitely coming around to the Wales idea now! If anyone else survives, I might well be in the mountainous bits just north of the Machynlleth area, so come by for a Welsh cake and a new sweater.

I was thinking all the food in the shops would last quite a long time really, what with most people (other than thirty-somethings and one token child, it would appear) being dead.

Also wouldn't the woman with the son who has leukaemia be absolutely hysterically searching for him.... I would be. In fact, I would have thought there would be a lot more mass hysteria amongst the survivors altogether, rather than being relatively reasonable about the whole thing.

I remember the 1975 version. Was doing my O levels then!!

Thanks for The Changes link, UnQDad! I loved that when I was a kid. Remember avidly watching the old version of Survivors too.

I was thinking, if 10% survive, that's 6m people in Britain alone (what would that be - about 16th century levels?) & 600m worldwide, so it wouldn't be quite so desolate.

I would get painkillers, anti-Bs & a few other med supplies, camping stuff, calor gas, warm clothes, boots, books (esp survival manuals!), batteries, wind-up electronics & torches...

i'd go for a hilly backdrop running down to the coast with preferably a salmon stream neaby - possible scotland, then you couldl have lamb and fish to eat , cows for milk/cheese etc, need to find a farm with a generator or better still a wind turbine, agree with breaking into library to get books as 1) need to learn how tomanage lifestock and 2) need ot save all classics for future generations ( have just read blinf faith by ben elton in which books are illegal) . we already own an old land rover so could look the part straight away, would really need to find a couple of other survivors to take on a farm next door as otherwise cannot see how you could re-populate as the dc would only have their siblings to have future children with IYKWIM. oh and would have to swing past boden/whitestuff/white company to stock up on clothes and towels bed linen etc - well just becasue civilisation as we know it has been wipe dout i do not see why i need to go without lifes luxuries.

The idea of any of you being so calm and frolicsome as to go into shops and try on posh frocks is hysterically funny. So you'd do that rather than, say, avoid cholera, escape the packs of feral hounds roaming the city streets (nobody's said the virus affects animals, have they? There will be an awful lot of hungry dogs out there...), or look for food and shelter, or escape from starving brigands who will be on the look out for something to murder (and probably rape)... Ooh, no, the post-apocalypse world will be just you having a whale of a time swanning around Harvey Nicks!

that should be "Blind Faith" by ben elton - a very good read

Good point UD. I kept on saying to DH that there should be packs of ravenous dogs roaming around and was convinced that the poor mum character was going to get raped by the chappie in the outwards bound centre place.

DH is an ICU consultant and kept saying worrying theings like "Oh, this is quite realistic" and "This bit would probably happen". He reckons everyone died too fast, though. I think I'm going to restock the garage with baked beans .

lol UQD - my image of post-apocalypse is more 'Mad Max' Thats such a funny image. I must admit one of my thoughts was - how would I cope without MN!

last night we decided we would go to a chemists and stock up on anti-bios and asthma meds, then go to a garden centre to get seeds then go to a farm that we know that has most sorts of edible animals.

Perhaps I ought to get a rifle or something too in that plan.

Could we have some sort of codeword or sign so that you could spot other Mnetters among the survivors? That way we could have little get togethers....well the three or so of us left (I don't buy into this 10% thing - it looks more like maybe 0.10% in the program).

Oh hang on the sign could just be that we'd all be the ones wearing Manolos plundered from Harvey Nicks....

The rats...............where were the rats??? There would be thousands and more by now - top opportunists!

My plague plan is much like everyone elses - seeds, beans, petrol.

But stuff Wales - I'll be rowing somewhere warm where I can grow grapes, staying in Blighty, are you all mad?

If you row to France all the books telling you how to grow your own food, milk a cow, etc will be in French. And there won't be any MNers there.

What about going to Cornwall and living in the Eden Project? I'd be up for that.

Or Kew Garden. More upmarket and handy for raids on Museums, art galleries etc.

hmmm theres a thought Snigger. but I wouldnt want to row across the channel in the winter - it would be horrid. Might consider taking a jetski thingy over in the summer (but then where would I put my supplies of marmite and decent tea bags?)

I shall make wine.

The MNers shall be helplessly drawn to me.

I shall make it and they will come

If you're looking for me I'll be the one dragging my own body weight in chocolate buttons through the Chunnel.

No way Snigger. I'm already armed with shotguns, a dog, and a pair of shetland ponies. I will have all the choc buttons.

In The Stand (Stephen King's 'plague' book for those of you who don't know) most of the dogs got the plague and died too. But the survivors of that one had to contend with way too much religion.

i had to sit through this programme with dh wittering
'we'll be allright- you can sew and grow veg and i know how to light a fire and make beer'

well that's great then

Oh, I forgot about wine, marmite, decent tea, chocolate. Mind, all those things keep for ages, don't they?

I would go (once I'd raided a lifetime's worth of the above from the supermarket) to somewhere southerly enough to grow tomatoes. Not too near the sea as it's harder to grow things. Next to a wind turbine so that I could eventually generate electricity.

Oh, I'd nick solar panels as well.

If I can persaude my bad cat not to eat the entire bird then I'll have a plentiful supply of pigeon (hopefully it won't be avian flu)

liath "convinced that the poor mum character was going to get raped by the chappie in the outwards bound centre place." that was what I was expecting too! Didn't trust him at all.

DS was very concerned about how they'd emptied the mway for filming, and how all the characters ended up on the same road. I was thinking (a la the Stand, Solid- did you spot the identical scenarios?!) why weren't there queues of cars on the road with dead people in, since they seemed to be dropping where they were? Why wasn't Tescos (?) carpark full?

lol UD - dh and I have spent the last 10 years thinking that we were the only people alive to remember the first version. We were both hooked (as very young children, of course! [grey haired emoticon]