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My local Rhodes shopping centre has an HMV and a Hobbyco selling Hornby at high prices.  It has a bookshop too but no department store.  Many of the people are posh, as are lots of the shops. Have no idea if Hobbyco have P2s, haven't been in for ages.

 

Do I have you all riveted now?  Good, then answer me, is Rhodes like Oxford or High Wycombe?

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They have a Colossus at Bletchley.

 

I should think neither Oxford or High Wycombe are like Rhodes as I gather it's somewhere in OZ and the oldest thing in OZ is the weather. 

 

Ah it's a suburb of Sydney. Far too modern to be compared to Oxford or High Wycombe. Wycombe has a Brunel goods shed. Needs a bit of work. 

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He didn't specify, or give us much to go on. I was thinking of the Rhodes, nr Greece. The Colossus of Bletchley doesn't sound much like one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world. Mind you, I'll say with confidence I wonder how Bletchley hasn't fallen down, like the Colossus of Rhodes. I've been to Bletchley - it should be knocked down.

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The only Colossus at my Rhodes is called IKEA.  Used to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere but that's no recommendation.  Will have been overtaken many times by now but has yet to fall down or be pushed.

 

And while I could walk there and back in a day, I choose not to.  I have ridden my bike there and beyond though. Haven't made it to Oxford, Wycombe or Bletchley, on my bike that is.

 

PS.  I can probably keep up this drivel as long as you lot can, even if you have me outnumbered, which means I'll go numb before you do.  Especially around the bit sitting on the bike.

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Fishy was probably too busy Turing on his bike, called Alan?

Postie, - the Rhodes I was referring to was the kind you find in street-guides, such as the A - Z, or those 'clever' electronic thngs that tell you that the Rhodes you are driving on are in the middle of an open field, etc.

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It's where they cracked the enemy messages. Colossus was one of the computers used to break the Enigma codes. The very first computer was built there years before the yanks decided to be the country that discovered computers. I spent months there as a trainee telephone engineer. Bleak. 

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I've actually seen the Colossus of Rhodes. It's quite big.

 

PP, when you refer sarcarstically to Bletchley, do you actually mean Milton Keynes? I remember when there was no Milton Keynes, only Bletchley. The whole area is an enigma to me, though, because Northampton is very fearful of losing its town shoppers to that MK "City" which is in fact still a town.

 

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