Please sing title in your best Freddie Mercury voice. Apologies for useless commenting yet again. The decorating is the straw that is breaking the camel's back and I could no longer ignore the general filth either as the John Lewis lady is coming to give her verdict on the utility room tomorrow. And I haven't even started the family calendar yet and I have a VAT return and the annual accounts to do which should actually be at the top of the list....
In good news the Christmas cards have arrived and look fab, we have a few shelves back in action and The Imitation Game was brilliant. I was lucky enough to be at St John's when the late great Sir Harry Hinsley was Master. He was the son of a miner and a school caretaker but won a scholarship to study history at St John's in 1937. In 1939 he was recruited by Denniston, who features strongly in the film, to analyse radio traffic. He used the frequency and type of calls to predict where and when German naval attacks would take place. It took a little while for the admirals to trust him and many lives were lost before they started to use his information - and then afterwards they had to deliberately not act on some of the information so that the German navy didn't become suspicious. He was persuaded to talk to the graduate students about his time at Bletchley one evening and we all sat around while he told us about organising the capture of Enigma machines, going to set up the 'Special relationship' with America and then being congratulated by Churchill who gave him a cigar (and then took it back when he said he would keep it) and all by a lad from Walsall by the age of 26. He and many other people in Cambridge spoke with barely disguised disgust about the way Alan Turing was treated - his sexuality wasn't a secret (and he wasn't exactly alone in Cambridge in that regard) but the removal of security clearance was the last straw.
Thank goodness things have changed.
Interesting info about The Imitation Game....really looking forward to seeing it on Wednesday. Will probably read your words here again when I know more about what you are talking about!
Lovely flower with great focus & colour. Think I might have a go with my new lens tomorrow!
"Thank goodness things have changed", quite right too Judith, although you probably need to add a caveat , that not all parts of the world have changed. Lovely shot :)
Lovely flower with great focus & colour. Think I might have a go with my new lens tomorrow!