Breeding Ground
“Whitehead had given us a pretty thorough induction, making sure we all knew the full state of affairs. The slightly paranoid element of my personality thought that maybe a couple of the other men hadn’t been so keen to share all their stocks and supplies, or at least the knowledge of their stocks and supplies, but I still figured they’d realise they could trust us in the end.True to Whitehead’s word, the electricity had gone off, but we had plenty of petrol for the generators and the food store...s were overflowing. It appeared that our civil servants really were fat cats, or aspiring to be, at least. Several chest freezers were packed neatly with a 231 variety of cuts of meat, and the chillers held vacuum-packed cheeses and bacon, as well as two vast storerooms filled with catering-sized tins of everything you could imagine.The only thing that constantly reminded us of our new world was the weather. The thermometers attached to the outside of a couple of the huts confirmed our suspicions that the daytime air was getting hotter, averaging about thirty-four degrees centigrade and creeping up by half a degree per day, and our nights were full of torrential rain and loud claps of thunder.MoreLess
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