last seen heading somewhere vaguely west

As I explained to the slightly disapproving-sounding woman on the next till along from the one I was waiting for, if he wasn't happy he'd soon let me know. It was only lightly drizzling when I left for a wander to a bike shop but quickly escalated into a light downpour. The boy was in the macpacbackpack but had two hods, though the inner knitted hoodie hood was too big and flopped down to his nose and the outer raincoat hood only came as far as his ears when he twisted in a particular direction, so he looked a little bedraggled by the time we'd been to the bike shop and then to the muffin-shop, him clutching a small wooden fire engine all the while.