Last year, when going to CollectorMania Milton Keynes, Undead Medic and Banshee spotted it is very near Bletchley Park. You know, that oh-so-secret place where the codebreakers worked during what humans call "World War II". So, this year they decided to stay a bit longer and go for a visit.
Rhys, Tosh and I were left guarding Teddyprise, but from the little bit we saw and what I'm told, it is a very interesting place. They have a rebuilt Bombe (the machines they used to figure out the daily setting of the Enigma machines) and a rebuilt Colossus (the first programmable computer). I think Banshee got a bit emotional at the thought that, if it weren't for Colossus, her job wouldn't exist today. It is a good thing that tickets allow you to go back as often as you want for a year... I suspect we'll be going back quite a lot this year!
There was also an almost last minute plan of visiting Oxford. I wanted to go to the Bodleian library, to visit a dragon I used to know who worked there. Apparently he was fired on account of that breaking the "no flames in the library" rule... Undead Medic and Banshee were allowed in, and took a lot of lovely photos. I still think it is a bit dragonist not to allow dragons in...
There were also lots of colleges, churches, the Ashmolean museum, little alleys, a lovely Spanish tapas restaurant, a castle and a lot of walking.
Now we're back home, and Undead Medic and Banshee are already thinking of going back to Bletchley Park if they don't go to LFCC next month...
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