We got a little bit obsessed with Didcot Power Station during this walk. It was with us for a lot of the way but it kept moving - sometimes it was directly ahead, sometimes to the left of us and sometimes to the right. When we thought about it we realised it was actually us moving as the river meanders quite a lot here and I don't think power stations can walk! Angela is so excited by it though that she wants to text a friend, once she gets the phone switched on! We weren't sure about the look of the power station in the rural scene but we decided that by and large we didn't really want to do without electricity. We do take it for granted that we can just plug in our appliances, press a button and off we go. It isn't the same in the school in Grandcess where they have to use a generator to provide electricity. The generator is in constant use and so often breaks down which makes life very difficult.
This is very topical with the World Cup going on at the moment. The people of Grandcess love football and this generator is used to power a TV in the school when football is on. This is a good fundraising scheme as there is an entrance fee to watch the football and the money raised is used to fund fuel.
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