Up on top of the Cotswolds, beside the A417 dual carriageway, there is a top secret (British) military establishment.
Not a place with lots of people and armed guards and signs that warn you not to take photographs and that this place falls within the remit of the Official Secrets Act, not that kind of establishment.
This is an ordinary-looking single-storey building with a cement/concrete exterior.
From the road you might notice that it hasn’t any windows but you’d probably think it was a farm building – stuck out there in the middle of nowhere.
Near that aerial structure in the next field.
It’s been very windy for the last 72 hours, storm force winds have given the weather forecasters an interesting seasonal variation to talk about.
So windy that yesterday, on the M6 in Cheshire, seven HGVs were blown over and the motorway closed.
So windy that presumably some damage was done to the aerial array near this small grey building.
And yesterday afternoon the riggers (sorry, aerial erectors) from a certain RAF station were despatched to fix the damage.
But instead of transporting themselves and their equipment in the usual civilian van, this lot used a bog standard RAF vehicle.
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Sweet! It used to make me laugh when I lived in London that MI5 used to deny that monstrosity of a building was “theirs”. The World and His Wife knew otherwise! I’m not sure even now that they acknowledge it as their HQ. Perhaps they do, I don’t know. Funny though.