There are no guns, but there are crossbows. And Katherine, 31, is the proud owner of one.
“It’s for when the rioters start pillaging people’s houses,” she explains.
Petite and with a disability that sometimes leaves her in a wheelchair, Katherine knows she would be vulnerable in such a scenario.
“While you’d probably be arrested if you shot someone with a crossbow, it’s slightly reassuring to have the option,” she adds.
Katherine, an admin assistant at a residential care home, has travelled five hours from her home in Oxford to a dew-damp field on the Cornish coast. She has come for a gathering of people like her: people who are preparing for the end of the world.
