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No, Silverberg , I help look after the machines in the National Museum of Computing on the Bletchley Park campus. I make sure that the Bombe machine is kept clean and oiled, and clean the drip tray underneath it. Also I’m the only one who mops inside the protective stockade around the Bombe. It’s a rebuild, commissioned in 2007 and shows (as we have a team of demonstrators) how Enigma settings were possible to get in a much shorter time than previously, thus speeding up the reading of German Enigma messages, at times as fast as the Germans the other end of the network were able to decode on their Enigma machines. The final stage is still brainwork and not in public domain but there’s a small team who can still do it, we’ve won challenges each time. 

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I was talking to a lady yesterday. She was 99. She was in the Land Army on a farm next to Bletchley. I told her that was on my bucket list. I knew I had a memory of computers and Bletchley and the Awake thread but I couldn’t remember who. Last year we went to Manchester science museum and they had an original computer. The lady was talking about that yesterday. Weird isn’t it Her daughter who was there has  BC in her bones.

I hope you feel better soon. 

Good you were seen and CT ok moomy  although you had long waits. Hope pain settles with/without meds. 

The museum here has several very elderly computers, including the Decatron (nicknamed the Witch) and of course the rebuild of Colossus which was the world’s first but had to be kept secret of course. That speeded up the breaking of the German Lorenz encoded messages, fewer of them but Hitlers high command and longer messages, sent by teleprinter.

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And thanks, ladies, pain is easing thanks to better relief, and so im feeling better. Had a couple of naps during this morning as I was really tired. 

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I’m beginning to think it’s a bit sinus-related, just took Henry-dog out for a walk as he was restless, (he’s now zonked out on the sofa!) and the pain returned. That sinusitis I had in July never felt totally cleared, and left ears Eustachian tube is occasionally blocked. It had suddenly felt quite cool outside, but pain and temperature is fine again indoors.  Hmmm.

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Good you had CT and been checked out for those headaches. 
have you still got Henry dog? How’s your daughter … sorry I may have missed a message or two!

sinusitis is horrible! 
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Hi Jayhay , yes, still got Henry-dog, probably for a further week. I will need to take him out again in about an hour so he’s ‘empty’ before I go out. She’s driven off to the flat she still owns but is trying hard to sell, has someone coming to collect keys to do up kitchen, bathroom and flooring today. She’s then popping into the gym on her way back. Doing ok but still no date for excision biopsy. 

im off to a funeral of the chap who was our neighbour when we were first married till they moved out. I looked after their two daughters when they won a long weekend away, she had just had the second baby and had a bit of post natal depression so needed that break but although both had families, none would help. So hubs and I moved in to their new house and I looked after the girls while hubs was at work and we coped together during the rest of the weekend. I remember being exhausted as I took their care really seriously! 

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The funeral was good, a bit emotional at times, but great to have met up with Ann (the widow) and her daughters after so long. The older daughter lives in Northumberland but spends time with her Mum and said she’d be very happy to arrange meet-ups with Ann for a catch up. Interesting that I’m going up to Northumberland later this month, she said she’d love to meet up again when I’m there! 

I think Goldie-van benefitted from a good run, too, around 25 miles each way. And Henry-dog was fine being left for a few hours, he’d had a walk first and had his bark collar on before I left. Both daughter and I checked him on the indoor security cameras, he was fine, just sat in his ‘look-out’ place mostly. 

Today an easy day, hair appointment for a trim, apart from Henry-walks of course.

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