Wilt in Nowhere

Chapter 5

For the next fortnight Wilt kept out of the house as much as possible and occupied himself with finishing next year’s timetable while Eva bustled about trying to think of essential things she might have forgotten to tell Henry to do while she was away.

‘Now don’t forget to give Tibby her dried food at night. She has her main tin of Cattomeat in the morning. Oh, and there’s her vitamin supplement. You crush that up in a saucer and put some cream from the top of the milk on it and stir…’

‘Yes,’ said Wilt, who had no intention of feeding the cat. Tibby was going into the cattery on Roltay Road as soon as Eva and the girls were on their way to Wilma.

He solved another problem too.

He would take cash and use his Building Society savings. They had always been reserved for personal emergencies and he’d never told Eva of their existence.

He made another decision. He wasn’t going to take a map. Wilt wanted to see things with a fresh eye and make his own discoveries. He would go wherever the countryside took his fancy without any idea where he was and without consulting any map. He would simply go over to the West and catch the first bus he could find and get out when he saw something that interested him. Chance would determine his holiday.