OT London

My wife and daughter are in the area right now. They'd planned to visit London and see what there was to see there all day today, but fortunately my wife is not a "morning person" so they got up late enough that the news of the bombings had already come out. She emailed me to let me know that they wouldn't go to London today unless they were sure it was safe. Not sure how anyone could know that. I hope they just stayed away completely.

Thanks Terry

I dont live in London, but this is a small country and we all know or know of someone who is there.

I was at university in London in the early 70s when the IRA were trying to bomb us to bits. We got through that, and we'll get through this.

Most people yesterday were over the moon with the Olympic bid win, and us getting one over on the French.

Doesn't seem so important now, and all the parties have been cancelled.

Elation to despair in twenty four hours.

Funny old world we live in.

Tony

Terrible news. I felt very sad all day thinking in all people that are victim of violence and wars.

Joao

My sentiments to you Travis, hope your family is safe. But, have a good think now, who trained these groups in the old days against the commies??

You have a realy long good think now before you call me, and most of Western Europe for idiots now, do you listen ??

I'm not taking the piss now, neither should you....

J.

Suggest to your wife that she leave London, go to Oxford via the train. It leaves regularly. A short ride. And go to the Turf Tavern there, and visit Christ Church, where I went to school. It used to be quite pretty.

I'd pass along your recommendation to her, but I don't have constant contact with her. Wow, I miss her even more than I imagined I would, and I imagined I'd miss her a LOT. :-/ She won't be home until

I'm surprised the English didn't declare war on the French after the snitty remarks they made about English food yesterday. (Second only to the Finnish in badness? The French are the ones that eat snails and fish eggs and cold soup.)

I was deeply saddened by today's events. These kind of people only understand the Chicago way. Being nice to them only makes them more determined. I think they are cowards that did this.

Charles of Kankakee

It's good to do things like this. I hope she enjoys England, regardless of the language barrier. :)

Jebus, at first I read "I used to be quite pretty". I was like, "no way!"

:P ;)

Jan

Where is she staying ? This whole place is quite small, and it doesn't take long to get anywhere really.

My brother lives & works in London, and I had a frantic few hours yesterday morning listening to various of his voicemails. Finally tracked him down to stuck on a tube line somewhere just outside of the centre. Luckily him & his wife went in late. She works right next door to the Edgware road site. Phew. He said it was a strange feeling as everyone was just so quiet, but they still got on with everything as best they could. Bliltz mentality, apparently. Hope everyone else manages to get through it somehow.

James

Talk about skirting with disaster...Good nothing happened!

-Kevin

Speaking of which, what do these terrorists want? Can anyone come up with something feasable the US could do to satisfy them? Is there something that COULD be done? I mean theoretically, because I'm not a fan of negotiating with people that want to kill innocent people...

-Kevin

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:30:08 -0700, Kevin Holzer scribbled this interesting note:

About the best thing that could be done is to provide some way of removing their power. No high oil prices, no power because they'd have no money. No money means no way to buy fertilizer for bombs. No bombs means no more people dead by idiots.

Simple, really.

-- John Willis snipped-for-privacy@airmail.net (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

No. They live to kill in the name of anything that remotely justifies evil, and if none, they make it up out of their own heads.

Terrorism is cheap. You are way off the mark.

She is staying with her cousin Caroline part of the trip, her "Auntie Maureen" part of the time, and her uncle Roy part of the time. I don't know what area any of them live in. :-) I've met Roy a couple of times, though. He's a cool guy. He helped me build one of the work benches in my garage during one of his visits, and showed me how to cook "lard potatoes." MMMM.... *drool*

Hold on, here! You mean your wife is gorgeous AND English? Methinks you are just too lucky.

thanks for your support :)

I've been in france for the last week (olympics - WOOHOO!) and had a frantic couple of hours on the phone to friends in London. thankfully they are all ok, but my thoughts are with those who where not so fortunate.

Christchurch in the South? Not far from me :)