AWAKE.........

 moomy  enjoy your day. Mum would have joined the wrens but thankfully the war stopped just in time.

Have a great day moomy 

 Lacomtekp a beautiful rose for such a wonderful memory! My mum has 2 rose bushes of the same colour. She received them as gifts for Her and Dads 50th Wedding Anniversary. They have the most wonderful smelling roses and each year she seems to be getting more and more roses! 
oh and yes the escape room is a bit like an indoor treasure hunt! Great fun for all ages and like you said doesn’t involve so much walking, which is great for me! 

Wishing everyone a lovely Monday! Hope it’s a good day for all. Much Love, Sal xxxx

Daisy53 Just wanted to say I am thinking about you and hoping that all went well with your Surgery. Hope you are being well looked after. Sending love and hugs your way. Sal xxx

Thanks Sal.  I'm getting plenty of rest and being well looked after.

Daisy53 xxx

Very pleased to hear that Daisy53 if you need any extra help/company, I know a little Guinea Pig who would love to come over! Although you know he’ll eat all your nice treats

Take Care Hun xxxx

At long last I have my liver function and serology tests! DH went to the surgery to get a printout. I had hepatitis A, followed by covid, the two not being connected. Where I got it from I have no idea! The LFTs are much better, and though I am still tired with a sensitive gut I feel lucky to have come out of it without complications. Love to all fruitloops xx

I was a Q.A. over 40 yrs ago. Only 2 yrs, as a Midwife. I didn't fancy going to Northern Ireland so I left my Short Service Commission. It was a great eye opener for a Northerner. X

Phew, I’m home and have poured myself a glass of wine! 

It all went very well and the Bombe behaved, right through to when we re-plugged it for our regular demo menu, when a sense relay got stuck. Once freed (by the engineer, not me!) it responded and ran properly again. Phew, so glad it didn’t happen while needed in earnest!

I think they were pleased, we certainly got LOADS of questions!

Hugs xxx

What is a Bombe? 

It’s an electro-mechanical machine that was built to help speed up the finding of Enigma settings in WW2. There were up to 100,000 Enigma machines in use by Germany and her allies in many different networks using different settings to each other, settings were changed every midnight, and the settings of a 3 wheel Enigma with a plug board on the front were just under 150 million million million. The brainchild of Turing based on what the Polish mathematicians had done pre-war, it was designed and built by Harold Keen in the British Tabulating Machine company in Letchworth. There were 211 of them by the end of the war, Bletchley Park became the hub of a huge code breaking factory, shortening WW2 by at least 2 years. 

That’s a brief explanation really, there are lots of books written about Bletchley, but following the end of the war, all Bombes were eventually dismantled and a team gained permission, beginning in 1995, to build a working machine, it took a long time as parts available in the 1930s and 1940s are no more, so it wasn’t commissioned until 2007, but has been working pretty successfully since, and I’m honoured to be a Trustee and also it’s regular maintenance technician. 

Hope that hasn’t bored you?!

Hugs xxx