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 Great Scott!  I was very excited to see the name of the April challenge badge was Back To The Future! I’m pretty retro and these films were firm favourites in our house when we were growing up.  The first thing I did was to binge all three films over one weekend. I love them! (Side note: I heartily recommend the BTTF musical in London). I prefer when the films are set in the past, the future parts have always been irksome for me. The technology- still using fax machines and not a mobile phone in sight! It is a shame we don’t have Hoverboards though, they would be fun.  I had a go at some retro arcade games, albeit on my phone. I am old enough to have played a couple of these in the 80s on arcade machines. Pac-Man is a classic, it was (and still is) great fun. We even had Pac-Man soft toys!  I also had a go at playing Galaga, I wasn’t very good at it 🤣 The recreation of a retro dessert was something I was looking forward to doing, it also fits one clause for Ba...

As part of the Curiouser and Curiouser Quarter 2 badge, I chose Codebreaker as my brown section learning badge. It was one I’d already kind of started, and I still want to do a couple more clauses, but technically I’ve completed it.  1. Learn Semaphore For our puzzle rebellion meet we tried semaphore to send a code from one end of the room to the other.  Trying semaphore 2. Learn the NATO phonetic alphabet Tired of saying “F for frog, S for sausage and U for unicorn” when you spell things over the phone? I know I am!  Initially for military use, the NATO phonetic alphabet was officially adopted in 1956 and is now widely used across various sectors including aviation, maritime and emergency services. I have been trying to use the phonetic alphabet for a while, this gave me the push to really learn it. The Leicestershire Rebellion tested me on it…I just about passed. I’m much more confident with it now.  3. Visit 3 escape rooms.  I must admit my escape rooms were ...