...i was debating this morning, whether to go online and to post the following...for fear of looking stupid...foolish...mad...but then - when have i ever let that bother me? there is a certain 'art' to it, isn't there, daldry? oh and you had figured that i would never remember the following...but the marines were able to do so - go figure....

first up....eliza manningham-buller whilst working for prince philip...and yes, daldry was a surprise 'number' to pop up on that side...well, she was to tell the marines "it would take too long to explain" and "we have to act fast"...and well, who is better at that, than the marines?...who were, later on...to nickname the whole operation as "quad-ped"...and i shall now explain why....

the marines were to surreptitiously replace 'what-was-in-the-box' with a clever fake...they were then to join in with what i shall call the 'treasure-hunt' down that road....with the intention of failing...this was all prince philip's idea...the idea of a quadruple bluff....and it went off very successfully indeed....for example...

gill had no idea of what was going on...and so he was to start to rant down the tannoy at the marine-in-the-garden...why wasn't he getting a move on?...get down that road and check out the box etc etc...

the-marine-in-the-garden had been in contact with me...to ask me how to do 'mental' - as in how to act when your chip has been hacked-and-get-away-with-it...i was to adlib along the following lines...make out that you are in the garden of eden and that you are worshipping the apple tree of knowledge...talk about apples...he then improvised... to go on and talk about blueberries and blackberries, in the bushes beside the tree-in-question....gill was non-plussed...was that marine talking about a phone signal? etc etc....and during this time....three men had appeared on that street...to then make off with the box....

cut to NASA....and some time later..."it's the real thing - i'm almost sure of it"...they then inputted a certain 'factor' into their computer system....the marines were to laugh about 'mainlining' it....later on, the pentagon were to pay a call...hence the rather sheepish photo of that NASA crew by their 'black box' and screen - carefully chosen by the pentagon....the pentagon were to inquire "how much damage has been done?"...the NASA crew were to reply along the lines of 'how long is a piece of string?' i.e. they had no idea what had really happened, at all...or how to rectify it....go figure.

MI6 JOHN was also to suspect that 'something' was up - having heard what that marine was to say, in the garden-by-that-tree...and that is why he had incorporated the whole 'would you adam and eve it?' theme to the memory aids relating to the sharapova gang in brightlingsea....

what else? well the 'quad-ped' note upon the timer system...was a reference to a certain lincoln college, oxford 'quad'...lincoln college used to have a tortoise 'in residence' upon the lawn of the quad...a four-legged slowcoach...and i can remember saying to daldry that a good name for prince philip's operation would be 'tortoise poo'....because when you go to sit down upon that lovely green lawn, in the summer...and you unfortunately land upon tortoise poo....well, it is unexpected and rather nasty, isn't it?

...and so that is how the name of that operation was to come about...in relation to memory aids...file retrieval...the whole lot....OPERATION TORTOISE POO....and as NASA were to find out...it is unexpected and rather nasty...isn't it?

what else? well i have no idea what eliza had wanted replacing in that box....or how the 'clever fake' was to effect NASA's systems....and so you would have to ask her...wouldn't you?