Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Well that was the biggest blipmeet we've had for ages, 15 of us at Bletchley Park for a pre-big birthday celebration for hildasrose. It was good to see the usual gang - hildasrose & Rob, Technophobe & LooseCanon, steveng & Gill, chrispybox & mrscb - and also to meet some new (to us) blippers for the first time - Igor & Anniemay, BlackTulip & JJ, and chantler63.

After drinks on arrival, a pootle and then lunch, some of us did the guided tour. That was a bit disappointing as although there were a lot of interesting facts it was all outside (cold and damp) and we didn't actually see inside any of the huts. So afterwards mrsfb & I went in search of enigma machines and bombes. 

The main blip is a display inside one of the huts. I've added smoke as one of the more unexpected snippets of information was that everyone at that time of course smoked, so they must have been working in a perpetual cigarette haze.

We did find the enigma machine and a bombe (first extra). Although we watched the demo of how it all worked I still have absolutely no understanding of how this amazing code breaking was done. I'll have to watch The Imitation Game again.

In the second extra I've captured some Bletchley Park wildlife. It was real - it flew off just after this shot.

One year ago:
Looking Out, Looking In?
Wes Anderson may have come up in discussion today :-)