SHEDGlobal?

Before the main sessions begin on Tuesday July 21, TEDGlobal kicks off with a series of outings on July 20, and I’m looking forward to going round Bletchley Park, ‘historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer.’

Particularly as we’ve just come to the end of Shed Week here in the UK (no, really) and Hut 6 at Bletchley Park has just won the Hut Category in the awards for Shed of the Year 2009. The site where Alan Turing worked relies on donations and its own fundraising. You can even get married there. Somehow the thought of two people choosing the National Code Centre as the place where they commit to spending the rest of their lives trying to understand each other seems rather apt.

- Antonia Ward