The snow came in early February of 2019, plunging the whole UK under a frozen white blanket of ice that threw the country into public travel chaos. As Mike and Tara pulled off the M4 at the Reading exit, large flakes drove at the windscreen of his new Jeep like a myriad of tiny phantoms intent on breaking through, only to be thwarted away by the wipers.
“Might get snowed in up here,” Tara said as she cranked up the heater. “Weather says it’s only going to get worse. Beast from the east two they’re calling it.”
“We can get a room,” Mike said with a grin and she punched him playfully on the arm.
The sat-nav took them from the motorway, around the town and past the Madejski Stadium, home to Reading FC, then out to one of the residential districts. The Harrison residence was a typical detac
