Blog Assignment – Perspective 1
Charlotte was tired and restless after a day of rehearsals for the forthcoming Christmas Pantomime and attempting to learn her lines – Snow White was a talkative girl. At exactly thirty three minutes past four Charlotte left the village hall and headed down the road towards home. As she passed number forty-five it started to rain and by the time Charlotte had rounded the corner and come to the end of their back garden, the rain had turned to hail.
A lazy walk turned to a brisk jog as Charlotte headed to the overhang of the closed Green Grocers to seek shelter. The hail had continued for four minutes when Charlotte caught sight of a mysterious black cat-like figure, though much bigger, making its way discretely from one side of the road to the other, from nearby the Post Office to the narrow path that led to the park.
Charlotte squinted in an attempt to see the figure through the falling balls of ice and followed it with her eyes. As the hail began to ease and fall back to rain, she darted out from the shelter and across to the pathway, slightly hidden by bushes and overhanging branches from the apple trees in the adjacent garden. All that was to be seen was a fat ginger tabby cat sat in the middle of the path, seemingly oblivious to the rain.
