Tales Of Rebellion

Weekend In The Wilderness part 2

We make good time to Gloucester and drive around the outskirts looking for supermarkets. Camps such as the Wilderness Centre survive off donations and the out-of-date food wasted by supermarkets. We wanted to arrive with a few gifts in addition to the onions and the Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum so when we saw a monstrous ASDA we pulled up round the side.

The side gate was locked and the top covered in spikes but I insisted that I had the Ninja-Skills to scale it. I pulled myself up at the corner, slid onto a flimsy plastic roof in the adjoining lot and dropped into the yard. I immediately crouched and ran behind a line of trolleys. The yard was deserted and I snuck about cautiously looking for the bins. There was much garden fertiliser and plant pots but no skips so, quite disappointed now, I glided back towards the gate. I'm on the other side of the yard from where I dropped in, using a gigantic trash compactor for cover, when I glimpse a yellow high visability jacket. I slink back to the other side of the trash compactor and quieten my breathing. When I peak back I see more high viz, but further away. I maneauver back to where I came in and see Jorrick through the bars, to his left is a plastic smokers shelter with a large mass of neon yellow, chatting and puffing within. ASDA minions, oblivious to my prescense but a hindrance none-the-less. I stay low and bide my time.

Sure enough, my opportunity presents itself. A truck rolls up to the gate and stops while a woman from the smoker shelter comes to open the gate. As the truck drives in it becomes between me and the ASDA minions. I time it just right and walk out breezily.

“Very smooth.” Says Jorrick “You really do have Ninja-Skills.”

“No bins though.”

We get back in the car. Its almost 12 now and we drive on to the Wilderness Centre.