That’s The Spirit
One of the Millarworlders has changed his standard signature off the back of last week's events, and I wish I'd thought of it myself.
He's currently using:
"It's hard to panic the British. We've dealt with the Blitz, the IRA, the Silurians, the Daleks, the Cybermen..."
A Letter To The Terrorists, From London
From The London News Review:
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?
This is London. We've dealt with your sort before. You don't try and pull this on us. "
Gert Makes The Point….
...that our city is beautiful.
And she has the photo to prove it.
Nice one Geraldine.
Gotta Love CNN
Clearly, judging by this headline, they think that London has never experienced terrorism before.
Actually, it's not just CNN - from Fox News' 'Voice Your Opinion!' page:
"I grieve for your country and am praying for you. London is one of my favorite cities in the world because of its highly civilized and humane people. I am sad to see you have joined us Americans as victims of the ultimate incivility. Terrorist extremism must be stopped." - Julie (Tallahassee)
Unreal
Nice to see George Galloway MP not missing a chance to show how classless he is:
Quote: Respect MP George Galloway says: "We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the Government ignoring such warnings."
Back Pedalling
I confess that earlier this morning, this was going to be a posting about the irony of London's transport infrastructure bringing the city to a halt the day after the glorious Olymic bid win which it was so fully geared up to deal with. That was when the line was still 'power surge - oops".
Now it's clearly nothing of the kind I'll say that I have been following the news throughout the morning, and I'm somewhat stunned. The clear parallel with the Madrid train bombings is startling, and the timing (all eyes on the UK because of the G8/Live8/post-Olympic announcement) is of course, from a terrorist perspective, ideal.
Seeing one's city brought to a standstill is a sobering experience, even though I was here during the excesses of the IRA capmaign in the late 80s/early 90s.
And truthfully, hearing Tony Blair sounding shaken and unconfident is not the kind of thing I was hoping for in his statement.
And The Crowd Goes Wild!
Huge cheers in the office just now as the Olymipc bid winner was announced.
Ho hum - I shall be gracious and say that I can certainly appreciate the effort that went into it and congratulate them on having achieved what they have.
The Olympic Thing
You know, I keep hearing these interviews with people involved in the London 2012 Olympic Bid saying how important it is to have the support of the residents of the candidate city as part of the bid process. Apparently, in the last few months, support among London's population has grown beyond any expectations, and there's now a real sense that the whole city is united behind this effort.
If this is indeed the case, and not just bid team hyperbole, then the inevitable question to ask those supportive residents is:
ARE YOU ALL MAD?????
What A Difference A Year Makes
David and I were going to go to Brighton for the day on Saturday, before fatigue overtook us completely. The reason for doing so was to mark what is actually today - the first anniversary of us deciding that we thought this could be a relationship.
That's right folks, a whole year since I started dropping cryptic comments about how I might be seeing someone; about eleven months since I declared love and marriage.
It's gone *incredibly* quickly, and that's largely because I'm so stupidly, cheesy-grinningly happy.
Here's to lots more.
The Cursed Traveller
After the crappy journey back to London on Thursday morning, I then had the coach trip from hell in the afternoon. Lost driver, lack of promised on-board facilities, late start, diverted because of an accident into some seriously windy twisty all-but-impassible-in-a-double-decker-coach country lanes; we had the lot.
All to end up at a fabulously Chavtastic hotel ready for the company day out on Friday.
The day itself was great by the way, but the journey there and accommodation didn't get it off to a great start.