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The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.

This is M.C. Fontaine, welcoming you to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra.

This episode is the concluding part of the series of programs at BBC Radio Gloucestershire have kindly led us share with our listeners and is more of an insight into the personal lives

of some of our great veterans who served at Bletchley Park and GCHQ.

The next regular Bletchley Park podcast will be on July the 10th. He was working in Hutt 7 and giving us along with several other chaps work to do

and really got to know him when I was on shifts because they're only about

five or six of us working. And we used to make coffee and tea, the wrens used to stop, and they

used to call it tea boat, which is apparently the term used in the navy on the ships. And so we used to say to the men

there, would you like some of our tea boat? And they thought that was very funny. So when we were on

shifts, I was doing the drinks for the two or three men who were there during the evening or at

night. And I got to know my husband quite well.

So that during the day, when we had our lunch break, we used to meet up.

And then we both discovered we like cycling.

And he had a bicycle there, and so did I.

And on our days off, we went cycling together.

And so I suppose it developed from there we had a lot of

interests in common he liked music so I think on the whole um it was a sort of gradual development

of getting to know we certainly didn't talk about work when we were sort of at lunchtime or when we met or when we went out for the day.

We just, I mean, we met us friends and that was sort of our main interest in just going out and about.

I remember we went to Stratford-on-Avon several times and I discovered that my husband who'd been at Cambridge had learned how to punt and he took us out on a boat on the river in Stratford.

My future husband who was the head of my office, I don't know what he did between then,

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