Friday 30th August 2013

We finally have some internet access here. I can't remember the last time I used a computer. Typing again feels strange. Before everything happened I used my phone browser most of the time anyway, but coverage dissipated pretty quickly when the country began tearing itself apart just over a year ago. To be honest I've been avoiding this for a few days now but it was my idea so I'm going to go through with it. I just don't want to get too cosy and think things are improving; they're not, and that's the reason why we've started this blog.

Sorry if I'm rambling but putting my thoughts in any order isn't something I've done in a long while. All the people here have been running on adrenaline for far too long. My name is Lee Varley. This blog is intended to show the rest of the world that, firstly, we're not all dead, and secondly, Britain isn't abandoned.

I'm writing this while sat underneath the Straight of Dover in the British side of the Channel Tunnel, one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. With me to deal with any computer difficulties that might happen is Tech Nicholas. Nick brought our internet stuff with him last week when he got back from the Sangatte Expatriate Zone. He also picked up cigarettes and some not bad French booze. It's good to know duty-free made a comeback, and no-one's bothered about the smoking ban anymore. You can't really pop outside for a fag here.

Nick's been reading news sites from America and Australia, talking about the "Undead Kingdom" as we're apparently known now. He showed me an article that said most of the planet's population hasn't seen one of them. It's hard to believe normal life's going on everywhere else. Films made people think the entire world would kick off at pretty much the same time, but after all that bollocks about 2012 it was just us. Usually we're so composed.

Apparently everyone knows about the attack on the Olympics now, that it started in London and spread outwards in days. By this time last year most of England and Wales was dead or dying and anyone left was retreating for the Highlands or heading to the safe zones on the French coast. At the end of the year there wasn't any news from the underground bunkers left over from the last century that are dotted around the country. Ireland's gone as far as anyone can tell. There's been mutterings about taking a boat there from the S.E.Z. but there's not much support for it at the moment. It's all we can do to keep the Tunnel from being shut down and permanently sealed off. Hopefully this record's going to help us get international support. God that makes the whole thing sound like Band Aid but you know what I mean.

Something's happening. I have to go.