Bletchley Park

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We spent the best part of a day exploring ‘BP’, the Buckinghamshire estate and site of Britain’s top-secret world of WW2 Codebreaking.  The mission of those working there was to crack the Nazi codes and ciphers. The most famous of the cipher systems to be broken at Bletchley Park was the Enigma.

It was mind stretching trying to make sense of how Enigma was broken with the help of the genius of such mathematicians as Alan Turing, whose life and work was recently portrayed in the film The Imitation Game.

It was good to know that WW2 hostilities were shortened by at least a couple of years through this project.

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    Prayers and blessings to the people of Christchurch on this, the fifth anniversary of the earthquake which killed 185 people and destroyed much of the city. This morning I walked the labyrinth in commemoration and gave silent meditation for those who left this planet and those left behind. May the struggle to rebuild shattered lives and broken hearts, along with shattered buildings and broken architecture, be a fruitful and successful one. Let good thoughts travel across the miles and fill our brothers and sisters with love, light and hope.

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