Under the Microscope

At the first light of dawn¹ Kath carried the old dog to the camper bus,² and plonked him into his bed³ by her husband’s feet; Robert frowned.⁴ He had been waiting in the driver’s seat for ten minutes, with the engine running.⁵

Kath turned and a blew a kiss to Carl, stood at his bedroom window.⁶ Their twenty two year old waved back, feebly.⁷ Saddened, Kath looked away and bit her lip.⁸ Shivering she dashed to her car,⁹ on the road, behind the bus.¹⁰ As she turned the ignition key snow began to fall.¹¹

In convoy,¹² the two vehicles made their way up the slippery hill, turned right and headed towards the link road, the A500 which would pass through Stoke and take them to junction 16 of M6, where they would head south.¹³

, the 1980’s hit was aptly playing on the car radio as they motored passed the turn-off for Festival Park. Kath’s imagination about the long journey ahead was already working overtime but then the bus’s lights flashed and Robert pulled in sharply. Kath tensed, and glanced at her watch; !