Our zombie moved in on a Sunday, sometime between 3 and 4pm. I'd been out doing some shopping at Asda – fighting the usual queues - and the zombie was there when I came back.

I say zombie - that's not the right name for it; I don't know what it is really called. It was dressed not unfashionably, but looking a bit shabby. I guess it must have been dead - there was a faint whiff of decay about it, not unlike a stuffed animal; and it made no effort to communicate, not even responding to external stimulus (I tried surreptitiously poking it with a knife once – it went in quite deeply between the ribs).

He stood there dressed in black, the snow swirling at his feet, a dark and potent tower of potential violence and death surrounded by a blistering white sea of serenity and emptiness.

It was all just patience now, he strained against the silence to try and detect even the slightest tell tale sound that would give away the position of his latest nemesis.  It was out there somewhere, perhaps watching him right now, perhaps moving in on his position unseen.  Perhaps it was waiting for him to make the first move.  That would never happen.

"One a day, that's how it started… doesn’t sound too hard does it, but then again I guess it all depends on the context really.  An apple a day sounds like a breeze, but surviving a knife fight every day, well that may be a little more demanding.  Ok, maybe knife fight was a bad example, I'm not a violent person, I was just trying to make… it was just an example.  My point being, that when I set out to do this thing, I never expected it to be as hard as it has been, and I certainly never expected that it would end up here.  Obviously I wanted it to be challenging, otherwise what's the point. Once I'd started it didn't take long to realize that it wasn't going to be as easy as I had initially thought either, but that in itself made the game just that little bit more exciting.  I knew there was a good chance that I'd end up going places I'd never normally go, meeting people I'd never normally meet and doing things I'd never normally do, but that was the fun of it you see?"