Day 82

The Internet has been patchy in our area again the last few days, I haven't had a good enough signal to post anything, country wide power shortages have caused problems with servers which seem to have been sorted out now. Steve thinks he knows of a way in which we could get power in the flat, he said there are some houses in Stevenage that have solar panels on the roofs. If we can somehow get them down and struggle to carry them home, they could be rigged to work in the flat. It would be much better than sitting in the dark at night time, or getting a very loud generator. Problem is, these panels are rather big and not easy to walk through the street with. Somehow it looks to be a goal of ours to improve our way of living. There isn't anything on TV because they are all down and showing the emergency broadcast, however DVD's and Xbox games are still there to be played. It would be great to just enjoy some of the older things we have been without over the last 2 months. This dream is sure to be a reality very soon because food is again starting to run dry, and we need something fresh to eat as cardboard crisps and gone off pot noodles are starting to make us ill.
Well I say us, more Steve, I have a cast iron stomach and very high immune system, so I don't get ill very often nor do I suffer from deli belly. That said we think it is going to be very hard to find anything edible at the moment, I suggested we look for gardens or allotments that have vegetables growing, I mean we have had a good summer with a lot of rain mixed in so I am certain that fruit and veg must be growing around somewhere. I realised this a few days ago, we have been too busy looking for the wood through the trees, why only look for packaged shop goods? When the naturally grown stuff is everywhere. Being on the 12th floor means we have a great birds eye view of all the houses in our block all with thriving gardens. After checking out a few with my pair of binoculars I clocked 2 gardens that had a  greenhouse and a vegetable patch.
I think its safe to say the owners are on a meat only diet at the moment so they won't need them anymore, hell we could knock up a great, tasty salad with all the trimmings, like home made coleslaw without the salad cream. We haven't seen any houses with solar panels which is a bit of a bummer, however we do live in the poorer part of Stevenage so I wouldn't expect to see something like that round here anyway. Maybe if we could hot wire one of the vans parked downstairs we may have a chance, also get to travel further out and bring more things back. Steve really needs to get out I think, maybe we could go off on our own just to get some personal space, providing we are careful and he doesn't have to come rescue me again. I think it will be good for the both of us.

I have noticed that the lack of maintenance has started taking its toll, the grass is really long and unkept, there are also a lot of weeds growing over the tarmac in the road and bushes are out of control. Soon its going to look like a jungle down there, it is weird seeing it like this, we are so used to seeing the council workers out on their ride on lawnmowers cutting the grass to keep it looking neat. I think the long grass actually helps, because the zombies have great difficulty walking through it, without falling over or getting tangled up in overgrown weeds. This also presents a problem to anyone trying to flee the zombies, so it is kind of a 2 way burden. Going to log off now, Steve has come in from the bedroom, looks like its time for some more manky crisps and warm flat coke.