Shropshire?

After a difficult week on our return from Scotland, we've shifted our interest back to Shropshire. I've loved Shropshire since visits in the 1970s and it's always been there in my mind to go back. An added bonus would be that Birmingham with its art and music wouldn't be far away. Usual internal debates about urban vs. rural. Meanwhile we have been glavanised into cleaning and decorating, with yet more sorting. The TV has gone, which has had quite a liberating effect, plus the darn things are plain ugly. The house is beginning to look good. All those jobs which we should have been on top of over the years are being addressed. Clean painted walls, simplified rooms, crap got rid of. Trouble is it is starting to look like a very nice place to live. I must remember my thirst for culture and how I can't get what I want here. Plus we want the change in landscape and some opportunity for adventures - the Midlands, Wales, east coast, anywhere north, all become so much more accessible. But we also need work.