All mod cons

Stayed over with some friends the other day at their parental (one direct parental, the other in-law parental, if you see what I mean) home.

Very nice, very large house. Their upper deck could quite comfortably fit my entire house on it, although I would have had to park my car in the kitchen. Which I almost did anyway: very steep drive.

This place had it all, as I discovered on the tour later that night.
"And as we go downstairs we see bedroom, bedroom, bedroom, bathroom, play room, nuclear bunker, bedroom"
Hang on, back up one...

Yes, a nuclear bunker.
a 5 room nuclear bunker.
Complete with the kind of big metal doors that you get on submarines.

We started to explore this at about 11 at night, out on a headland with no lighting of any sort and at least a 5 mile run across fields to get help. I was fairly OK until it was pointed out that it also had an emergency access tunnel that exited somewhere further down the hill. Frankly I've seen far too many dodgy late-night movies to stay comfortably in there, waiting for, I don't know, some sort of power cut. Or maybe a door to mysteriously close.

It didn't have lots of CCTV cameras in place thankfully. That would have been _way_ too much.



Have to point out that the bunker wasn't built by the people who live there now, but by someone else who apparently had to sell it as they ran out of money during the build. That would be the 2000 tonnes of concrete that they decided to pour in the basement. I know bunkers are all the rage, but I'm sure Sarah Beeny could have told them that a well proportioned downstairs loo would have made it a better sale...