Roadcat

December 24, 2012 about 14:00am - Christmas Eve

Once the kid fell asleep, he slept like a log. The dogs have taken a liking to him, especially Gizmo, and slept curled up next to him - traitors! I let him sleep and spent the time sharpening a short length of wood into a stake, for the kid to carry. At least he'll be safe if we run into any vampires! Actually it's more of a psychological thing; I've noticed that with the spear I feel more enabled, more capable of protecting mself and ...

December 24, 2012 about 3:00am - Christmas Eve

I woke in the middle of the night with the dogs staring into the darkness and growling softly. The campfire had had almost burnt itself out with only few remaining embers glowing faintly amongst the ashes. I had slept with my legs in the plastic bag and my trousers were damp from condensation inside the bag, but it was the dogs growling that had awakened me.

I struggled out of the bag and readied the spear, peering into ...

December 23, 2012 11:40am

The A14 is a stretch of over-congested, under-maintained road that is a main transport artery for the region. Before all this started I used to watch the sides of the road whenever I drove down it as quite often one could spot broken coil springs lying in the grass next to the road. It took us most of the morning walking northwards to reach the A14, skirting several small villages on our way and giving any houses a wide berth. It wasn't completely uneventful ...

December 23, 2012 7:00am

I spent last night cuddled up to the dogs, for warmth, beneath a pine tree and woke before daybreak with the birds making a racket.



Needless to say after the terrors of yesterday and with nothing but the clothes on my back to keep me warm, I didn't sleep very well. I'm stiff, thirsty, cold and hungry. But mostly I'm cold. Breakfast was a handful of acorns ...

December 22, 2012 7:30am

Sometime in the middle of the night the electricity failed, which means that the boiler isn't working, so I woke up in a pretty cold house. Everything seems strangely quiet, I guess I've been so used to some sort of background noise - either the radio playing or cars on the road outside or even the drone of plane engines in the distance that it almost seems unnatural not to hear these sounds. I've decided I'm going to leave the dogs at home and walk into the ...