So, you are being told that you have to give up something that you love. What would be the worst thing for you?
I love Scotch and wine, but I could give them up if needed.
Tea is my one weakness.......... I could never give up my tea.
Bev

Music.
I dread the day I go deaf, not being musical enough to be able to hear music that well without it being physically sounded, and I dread arthritis stopping me being able to play.

*fingers crossed that neither happens*

No, no, don't do that! Crossing fingers precipitates existing athritic tendencies!

Cheese?

Listening to, playing and reading about Beethoven....

My car (I walk as far as I can but I have a disability)

And tea too!

Well I have gone deaf Anacrusis. But I'm still playing, so don't worry It might never happen anyway.

I can think of many things, some of them not too suitable to post here. Perhaps I would most hate to give up my ponies, my recorder playing and singing and doing online theory and composition if the internet connection were to fail.

YOu are all quoting thngs you can't eat or drink. So if it's that, then I could never give up music.

Books and/or reading. I could maybe live without books as long as I could still read on the internet, although it wouldn't be the same. But reading... I dread never being able to read again if/when I lose my eyesight as I get older

Music
Contact with friends/family
Eyesight

Aside from music...*thinks*...I think I have to agree with Bev and say tea. Particularly (as some of you well know) the first cup of tea in the morning...

I get rather fed up with tea at university as it reminds me of work...

But tea + cake = good
tea + chocolate = good

and tea and biscuits if the biscuits dunk properly (ie they don't break up)

My cats and dogs.
The peaceful place where I live.
Lots of the things other people have already mentioned.

My dogs

(or my husband )


But if it's foody consumable stuff... then coffee, I could never give up coffee

Yes, coffee. Real coffee of course.

Red wine.

Coffee - proper coffee

Unfortunately as I'm thinking of quitting smoking (another thing I don't like giving up but I know I must) I might have to cut down the coffee a bit too as the two seem to go hand in hand with me

Coke and maltesers!

I actually don't think there's any food/drink that I'd really hate to give up, as long as I still had everything else. I think what I'd hate much more would be to give up having a variety of food/drink.
Other than that - music and friends. The two seem to go hand in hand more and more, and it would really break my heart to give up either.

For non-food stuff ,my Oboe and pet rabbits

For food stuff, nothing but if it's an ingredient, I would hate to not eat something with chicken once in a while.

Coffee and dancing. I thought I was going to have to go without coffee for a whole afternoon the other week and was beginning to panic. Fortunately I found some. Now I know how smokers feel.

I've had to give up playing the violin for the last few months because of a shoulder problem. That is really getting me down.

I haven't given up potato crisps, but I try to keep that under control, e.g. there is no point in buying those 6 packs from the supermarket to save money. They don't last 24 hours because I'm a chain-crisp-eater.

I did have to go without coffee when pregnant, because it made me feel sooo ill - but missed it all the same, and as soon as my kids were born, it was the first sustenance I asked for . And yes, real coffee, not the peculiar freeze-dried stuff which smells of musty furniture...
Wine I've had to cut back on because of medication, and am not missing it, so that's okay.
Good chocolate I'd miss, and ditto good cheese.

Non food/drink: Music, friends, swimming, and I'd hate to go deaf.
Food/drink: nothing in particular, although I could never become vegetarian, so I suppose it's meat. Also, maltesers and pringles are both VERY addictive

Food/drink... I guess coffee.

Other than that, I'm sorry but I'll have to make some of you cringe and say mwl1. I don't know where I'd be without him (in fact, I don't think I would even *be*). He is the most loving, supportive person I have ever met and to give him up... well, it doesn't bear thinking about. Goodness knows how he's put up with me over the last while but I'm glad he has done!

But yes - coffee!

*heaves sigh of relief*

no cringe - I think we'd have been puzzled if you'd not said that!


oh! I've thought of something else I'd find hard to give up ...

hot baths.

If you'd asked me a few years' ago then I would probably have said my bike as I cycled everywhere. Unfortunately, after a bad accident I HAD to give it up - have just about come to terms with it now so anything is possible!

Food wise: cheese, wine and tea would be difficult for me.

I'm not cringing.

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My electric over-blanket.

Obsessions. I love being in love with things (not people - I'm not a bunny boiler!)

At the moment it's Dirty Dancing. I have a nightie and eye mask and wash bag on that theme, that came in a set with the DVD.

Is there any other kind?







... oh yes, the jars of freeze-dried gerbil droppings... eaughhh... if that's real coffee then Kn*ck*erbocker Glories are all full of pants!

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White wine and (yes I know this is bizarre ) Special K - not that I ever have them together!

There is only one possible answer, isn't there:

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Sugar. And mushrooms

Surely salt goes better with mushrooms...

Reading, I think, would be something I would hate to lose.

Food/drink-wise...I don't know, probably chocolate if I'm honest, but part of me thinks I should come up with something more sensible than that...!

Right now (with three weeks until submission day) I think I'd cry if anyone took my laptop away...

... I think my fingers are morphing into the keyboard...

The live ones - husband, sons, cats, rabbits - not necessarily in that order (the rabbits come first, of course )
Other than that - books and sunlight - or rain
But if we're getting down to what really matters, then I think tea and chocolate - and cheese. I'd be alright without bacon as long as I never had to smell it cooking - to smell that and not be able to eat it would be awful.

Another one for my list,
Oxygen.

hehe, I guess anyone who does without that will probably not be in a position to mind very much giving anything else up...

Silly censor... I think you might have made a very good point there!

I always find it interesting howfolks interpret a thread. When I started it, I meant edible stuff. But people have put alsorts.
Mine's still tea though

Wine and crisps

and turkish delight.
and white wine.

I dont care so much for rosé.

Yep, that censor's particularly ridiculous. Just like ######.

Breathing!