Bletchley Manor

What a lovely day for a day out on one's birthday! Blue skies and sunshine, and not too much traffic as four of us ventured out to Bletchley Park, site of the wartime code-breakers. Here's the manor house. The rest of the pictures will wait because the same foursome are off out now for a meal, and I'm unlikely to be in any fit state to blip later... they'll appear on flickr in time.

The Colossus computer was so redolent of the equipment I worked on in the late eighties and early nineties, just before we all went microprocessor at CEGB. And the later stuff included a Space Invaders machine and an Apple II microcomputer, both of which featured in my first proper employment as a video-game development engineer.

It's worth noting that Bletchley (Codebreakers) and the National Museum of Computing are both on the same site but are now segregated and both chargeable entry. We paid for both but we really should have spent all day in one or the other. The Bletchley ticket is reusable all year, and we'll go back for all the huts we missed. I'm putting the back of Colossus as an extra, because everyone always shows the front... 

Happy birthday to me. 46 and a little bit more.