Author Topic: If you had your own desert island (Read 7970 times)

pgkevet · « **Reply #15 on:** May 11, 2016, 08:31:00 pm »

Quote from: Jullienne on May 11, 2016, 12:45:46 pm

without a shadow of doubt I would make it an island for turtles to breed on, with me being shall we say soul protector of them? A safe haven for turtles, one of my favourite animals in the whole world, I have yet to mert one though

Someone needs a holiday

https://blog.virgin-atlantic.com/t5/Our-Places/Caribbean-Conservation-Sea-Turtles-in-Jamaica/ba-p/10574#.VzOIK75xKR4

clydesdaleclopper · « **Reply #16 on:** May 11, 2016, 10:26:45 pm »

Quote from: devonlady on May 10, 2016, 07:14:50 am

And I would take my bagpipes. I can't play them well but how lovely to practise without upsetting somebody. Also it would keep the pirates away!

Well if it was a Johnny Depp as a pirate he'd be welcome on my island

MAK · « **Reply #17 on:** May 14, 2016, 07:35:01 pm »

I would be building a raft to escape. my list of things needed to keep animals for food and grow my veg and fruit would be massive. Then I would need my tools. Rather stay at home and just shelter here when it gets too hot.

pgkevet · « **Reply #18 on:** May 14, 2016, 09:18:45 pm »

Quote from: MAK on May 14, 2016, 07:35:01 pm

I would be building a raft to escape. my list of things needed to keep animals for food and grow my veg and fruit would be massive. Then I would need my tools. Rather stay at home and just shelter here when it gets too hot.

You lack imagination.. or youth. Given the youth and energy of times past, a nice tropical island with coconut, breadfruit, mango, lychee etc and importantly a good stand of large bamboo and you start to get going.. find a heap of shells or limestone and you make your own cement, gunpowder..no problem, specially if you have a bat cave or enough time to fill a few barrels of urine. A nice waterfall for power.. Some steel and basic tools would be nice 'cos that does get harder to DIY..

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #19 on:** May 14, 2016, 10:31:16 pm »

Quote from: clydesdaleclopper on May 11, 2016, 10:26:45 pm

Well if it was a Johnny Depp as a pirate he'd be welcome on my island

Only if he comes in character. I stayed up to see him on Graham Norton last night, and I wish I hadn't bothered. I know the man can articulate; he does it in all his film roles. On the chat show however he was almost incoherent. Not sexy, not one bit.

Jullienne · « **Reply #20 on:** May 17, 2016, 09:06:13 pm »

Quote from: SallyintNorth on May 14, 2016, 10:31:16 pm

Quote from: clydesdaleclopper on May 11, 2016, 10:26:45 pm

Well if it was a Johnny Depp as a pirate he'd be welcome on my island

Only if he comes in character. I stayed up to see him on Graham Norton last night, and I wish I hadn't bothered. I know the man can articulate; he does it in all his film roles. On the chat show however he was almost incoherent. Not sexy, not one bit.

Thing is I have noticed that he is actually very shy in real life, he just plays hilarious sexy characters but he isn't exactly quite like that in real life. We expect to see them all like they are in the films which they star in, but in reality they're nothing like what we're expecting, hence the term good actor, i thought he was rather sensible, maybe also very tired too and I noticed he hated it when Graham norton hit the chair button.

MAK · « **Reply #21 on:** May 17, 2016, 09:59:17 pm »

Thanks for the reply Pgkevet.
I don't think that I lack imagination or have lost my youth. I gave up a lucrative professional life, sold up and moved to France to live a very activate and simple life. I use all that I have access to , be it sand that I dig from the lake shore in the summer, stone I gather or the timber that I fell for fuel nod building.
Given our climate is probably warmer than yours and we do not have to flee 24/7 shopping or the intense nod persistent pressures of urban or rural life in the Uk I have no need to live on a desert island.

pgkevet · « **Reply #22 on:** May 19, 2016, 03:41:18 pm »

Sorry if i sounded at all insulting - that i didn't mean. But your suggestion that a tropical isle would need more resources just tickled me. I looked up where you are and for sure warmer and earlier seasons and more growing options. Personally I'd love a climate where I could harvest tropical stuff - just the beaurocracy and conflict that goes with it when one gets really tropical is sad.
I'm sure you can grow better figs and likely some citrus where you are but bananas, mango, breadfruit, coconut need warmer still.
We also tend to forget how innovative our forebears were... when it was normal to hand-hew stone and timber and DIY mortar and a village would get together to smelt ore and any scrap iron would be re-forged and re-purposed 'cos it was so expensive or hard work to make.

MAK · « **Reply #23 on:** May 19, 2016, 06:15:31 pm »

A newcomer in our next hamlet has made his forge and accepts eggs veg even bread in multiple payments for his work. Not sure that he has heard of tropical fruit but he has moved 400 km to live alone in what he tells me is his idyllic life.
Days when you can not gather food or work because of the heat get a bit tiresome and a few hours on the beach or around a pool can also be a challenge when hot.
That said I can understand why some want to move to a desert island.

waterbuffalofarmer · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2016, 07:16:41 pm »

Quote from: MAK on May 19, 2016, 06:15:31 pm

A newcomer in our next hamlet has made his forge and accepts eggs veg even bread in multiple payments for his work. Not sure that he has heard of tropical fruit but he has moved 400 km to live alone in what he tells me is his idyllic life.
Days when you can not gather food or work because of the heat get a bit tiresome and a few hours on the beach or around a pool can also be a challenge when hot.
That said I can understand why some want to move to a desert island.

Not move merely stay there a few times in a year, an escape point. Where I live its about fitting into the local community which I may have done, but I get rather tired of other people poking noses into my business.

pgkevet · « **Reply #25 on:** May 19, 2016, 08:02:12 pm »

Granted that high summer in jamaica can get periods of temps in the 30's and oppressive during the day but islands usually get sea and land breezes to cool things morning and evening. The trick being to pick those times for work and either noon siestas or go spear fishing. Of course a desert island with aircon solves that

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Given time i could probably conjure up the plans for a tall chimney for the draught and some evaporative cooling for the inflow from my handy waterfall....or have day quarters in a limestone cavern: just not the Windsor caves with several thousand species of mosquito and feet thick guano. If memory serves the town of Falmouth (jamaica) had running water before Washington (and is also home to luminescent algae in it's waters. If you dive in at night you get trails of blue-green phosphorescence at your hands as you swim above the bottom layer - 'cos I've done it)