Thurnderball

No!  That Is Not A Typo
For one thing, I have a spellchecker, and for another I am a notorious spelling-Nazi.  The English language does what I want it to do.  No, it is yet another punning title to do with tea and James Bond - after all, do you not make tea in an urn when supplying the potable to large numbers of consumers?  Why of course you do, as an array of teapots would be inefficient.

What's a Grecian urn?  One of these. Not suitable for brews.

     "Thunderball", for your information, is the one where they blow up a yacht, and there's no CGI involved in the explosion; quite the contrary.

A second before exploding

     They loaded it up with an experimental missile fuel, and the resulting detonation turned the ship into matchsticks, as well as breaking harbour windows several miles away, and nearly killing the camera crew because the engine was the only thing to remain intact, returning to earth from a height of several hundred feet.
     Okay, enough Intro, let the motley be dangled over the balcony edge*.

A Matter Of Statistics
About a year ago, the traffic stats for BOOJUM! went through the roof all of a sudden, with no reason for same.  Conrad wisely didn't believe that there were over 500 hits a day on average, but couldn't figure out where the problem lay.  After a good 6 months of this the figures fell to more acceptable levels, but one post always ranked at the top in the Stats screen - "It's A Rose".  It hung there annoyingly, like a frayed nail.
     Until today!  Art?

Gone

     Hopefully for good.  The traffic stats might not be so flattering, yet at least they are real and accurate.
     So - in light of that, come back often, and bring your friends!

Iceland - Where The Music Comes From
You know, Mum, Efterklang, Bjork, Siggur Ros, and also Steindi.
     "Who?" I hear you earnestly reply.
     I'd never heard of him either, until I came across a bonkers advert on Facebook for tourism in Iceland.  Art?

It is indeed

     They salt the song with various words in Icelandic, including "Mjolk" which means "Milk" and "Stol" which means "Stool", and "Fjorhjoladrif" which means "Four wheel drive car" as some of the roads in "Island" (which is Icelandic for "Iceland") can be a bit rough.
     Oh, and the title refers to "Alpha to Omega" which can be taken as Greek for "First to Last".
     There you go.  You are now better informed about the world, thanks to BOOJUM!**

That Other Amphibious Operation
Yes, we are back to analysing Operation Sealion.  I hope you recall my mention of the DUKW in the article I posted yesterday about "The Longest Day".  These were amphibious trucks that proved utterly essential to keeping the supply lines going during and after D-Day.
     For the prospective Teuton invasion of the Allotment of Eden, the German army had the Landwasserschlepper.  Art?

Hereafter the LWS

     This could carry 20 men, and tow a container carrying 20 tons of supplies, and by the time of OS, the mighty Wehrmacht had as many as 3 of them.  I have estimated that a single Teuton infantry division at that time needed about 250 tons of supplies daily to function - and this is a very low estimate indeed - so with the equivalent of 3 infantry divisions ashore in the first wave, that's 750 tons deliverable or else.
     Those LWS are sure going to be busy!
     If the supplies are landed by barge, as the men were to be, then that creates another problem, because the barges would be brought in at high tide, to decrease the distance needed to transport supplies.  They are then stranded when the tide goes out, for about 6 hours, during which time Perfidious Albion will be doing their best to put dirty great holes in them.

Imagine this - under fire!

     Of course you could use your LWS to tow them back to sea, but then you're not shifting supplies out from shipping in the Channel via the LWS, are you?

The plan - such as it was

     In reality it would have been even more difficult to supply the invasion forces, as they would have been nine separate infantry brigades from nine different infantry divisions (a brigade being one-third of a division), at nine different locations, complicating logistics further.
     The Kreigsmarine was well aware of these problems, and were extremely angry that the Wehrmacht (being the Army) merely handwaved them away as being part of a large river crossing.  You don't need to take weather, tides or the enemy's navy turning up to spoil the party on a mere river crossing; well, you do if you're trying to cross the Channel.
     One solution would have been to seize a port, such as Dover, which would then make resupply a lot easier.  Not actually easy, just less hard.
     Aha!  Don't forget you're dealing with Perfidious Albion.  It's in our blood, you know.  The Admiralty were equally aware of Teuton plans to capture a harbour, so they had special clapped-out done-in old ships ready in harbours, which would be scuttled at the harbour entrance at a moment's notice.

An example

     The British army units defending the southern ports also had acquired an awful lot of kit that those returning from Dunkirk had dumped on arrival, meaning that they were capable of putting up a much stiffer fight than their official ToE allowed.

     My!  Haven't I wittered on.  Hopefully in an entertaining yet educational fashion, and if not - it's not like you have to pay to read any of this, is it?

Finally -
Because you've earned it*** -

A tea urn

*  Don't worry - it's only the first floor.
**  You're welcome
***  Ouch.