Took a walk with the kids today. If we’re going to be cooped up in the house for a while, it’s good for them to get out now. Plus, the exercise will do us all good. I could do with shifting a stone in weight. Right now, running fast isn’t exactly my strong point, and I’m going to need to be able to run fast for what lies ahead.
While we were out the kids enjoyed looking at the animals in the fields around us. One little lamb came right up to the fence and tried to poke its head through to get to us. It took about twenty minutes to get the kids away from the thing, they were enjoying patting it so much.
Meanwhile, all I could think about was this.
When researching online I found a few diagrams that also showed the lamb’s brain, along with some recipes on cooking it. Given the situation, though, that felt like a step too far.
Eventually, I got them back inside, then went down and bought more tins of soup. We must have 100 cans of the stuff in the cupboard now, but they have a long date on them, and I wanted to stock up now before everyone else had the same idea. I’m amazed the shelves aren’t empty already, to be honest. In fact, I’m amazed that life seems to be going on pretty much as normal. People going to work, hitting the pub in the evening, whatever. Seems to me we’d be better off spending the time getting ready for when the zombies come.
Something occurred to me when I was driving back from the supermarket. Everything in Australia happened too fast.
I mean, literally overnight the whole country became infected. Now, Australia’s a big place, with thousands of miles of wide open spaces. It would take a zombie weeks to walk across it, and that’s if they didn’t decompose in the heat along the way.
No-one has given a definite answer as to what happened, but one theory is that some sort of experiment went wrong in one of the labs in the major cities. Probably Melbourne, they think, but that feels like a guess to me.
If that’s the case, though, how did it get to Sydney so quickly? Or Brisbane? Or any of the thousands of other towns and villages across the country? The theory seems flawed to me, unless – and this thought really scares me – unless the virus is airborne. Even then, though, it seems unlikely that the wind could carry it across the whole of Australia in a matter of hours.
So, something else then. A terrorist attack? It’s on too grand a scale for that. An act of God? I don’t believe in God, so I’m ruling that one out, even if others aren’t. Something must have caused the dead to start rising, though. But what? If only we had more information about what happened in Australia. Maybe then we could start piecing this whole thing together.
