Just after Audlem (raining again)

On Thursday we took another walk around Market Drayton as Scott needed a box as he told a Tamiya Radio Controlled car. I decided that Market Drayton could really do with some investment, there were so many shops which were empty and it just look a bit sad and empty as if it has seen better days.
In the afternoon we travelled a few miles to just outside Adderley and moored opposite some cows (probably the nicest place we have moored so far). Matilda really did not know what to make of cows and just starred at them for a while. We even for our usual evening walk into the village of Adderely and despite being in the middle of the countryside it did not have much to offer. The walk to and from the village was through little country lanes with fields of cows on either side. One cow had a tag “ready 831” and I did wonder if this was come sort of code of when he will become a Beef Wellington.

This morning, up early to tackle 15 locks. We took turns and had an early lunch after lock 11 in Adlem. A nice village, however, I have decided that an ‘open sandwich’ is not really value for money as you only get one slice of bread. We finished the 4 locks and travelled for another hour so that we could visit Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker. This was a bunker which was used in the second world war followed by a bunker for Regional Government in the event of a nuclear attack. Very chilling. As well as artefacts from the 1940s’and beyond into the cold war it also contained government literature about how households can be prepared for a nuclear attack and a 1960’s film showing what would happen prior and in the aftermath of an attack in the UK. I am now going shopping to purchase tins, salt, water, peanuts and orange juice.