This Is Turning Into A Saga…

…said Bob.

And I suspect he is right. After all the excitement about BH and Rana Jawad, and then even greater excitement about BH and winning the Colossus valve, I said “What next – a personal message from Paddy O’Connell?”

And behold, a postcard – with a ropey old picture of Broadcasting House and a message of congratulations from The Man himself.

No, really, it is a ropey old photo, it says so on the back!

And then, in the afternoon, a phonecall from Dr Stephen Fleming of the National Museum of Computing [at Bletchley Park] to ask if I wanted them to post my prize, or would we go down to BP and collect it personally? “We’ll go in person” said Bob. Stephen and I chatted a bit – then he rang back a few minutes later – to ask my mother’s name “I will see if we can find out something of what she did whilst she was here” he said. 45 years after I first learned she was there, 20 years after her death- I might actually learn a little more.

How utterly amazingly wonderful!

We are busy planning our visit, which will include guided tours of both the museum and Bletchley Park [websites here and here]

I am positively fizzing with excitement and gleefully grinning like Scarlett O’ Hara!