We're all gonna die!!!

As soon as I read that today's #BEDM was about sci-fi I knew it was the perfect opportunity to get all up in your face about the apocalypse. My all time favourite genre has to be 'the world as we know it has ended /is ending'

Some of my favourites are here. A slightly longer list than I had anticipated. I know that lots of the titles have been turned into films and I'm trusting I don't need to get all evangelical about how much more amazing the book always is...

What works for me is that all my problems seem rather daft when I'm immersed in a world with more zombies that people or where there are only a handful of survivors after a super flu pandemic. Whether to paint the living room daffodil white or white birch isn't quite as pressing as fight or flight and while my bank manager might disagree, my overdraft is not quite as blood curdling as a plague of vampires created by the US Army banging at my door.

So if the world as we know it is about to end then despite my penchant for ridiculously high heels and perfecting my eyeliner flicks I'm your go to gal. I know that in our shed the crowbar is my go to zombie killing tool. I also know where it is and where the smaller crow bar is so that I can arm smudge. Although the thought of arming my 8 year old is actually more terrifying than the undead.

I am constantly aware that there is never enough food to keep us for long here but we can bike to my mother-in-laws. Bikes are good, they are quiet so as not to wake the zombies and don't need petrol which just won't be easy to get when the end of days comes. My mother-in-law's because that woman obviously knows something we don't and has been hoarding for years. The other distinct advantage of her house is it's proximity to an M&S food hall which will be ripe for looting. Just because it's the apocalypse doesn't mean I'm going to want to give up Percy Pigs!