What the fuck is going on !

Only an hour ago I heard that London has again been bombed by 4 bombers on a bus and the tubes. God am I lucky that I didn't go to London today, I was fortunate that I was working from home, but have friends who either were/are in London or had planned to go there today. Thank God they are all safe and fine. This chain of events reminds me so much of the 1970's with the IRA, but now it feels so personal as I have cause to travel to London often whereas in the 70's I was still at school and had no reason to go there. Also I am seriously beginning to understand how it must be to live in Israel, a country I have enjoyed on more than 12 occasions in the last 6 years, and have seen the devastation there first hand as well, but again fortunately, I was never present when anything happened and I must applaud the Israel's for the way they handle these situations as now they have guards on every shopping center and resterant which makes you feel safer, and is more difficult for a bomber to cause serious harm. I read about a year ago in the Jerusalem Post, that the busses would all be fitted with an 'air sniffing' device that could detect particles of explosive if somebody boarded the bus carrying any device. At the time, I found this quite abhorrent that any country should have to go to such extremes to protect the population, but now I am definitely getting into the mindest that perhaps we should have such things on the busses, tubes and airports to protect not only our UK citizens, but also our very precious visitors.

My Trip To London

Well folks, I made my trip to London on Monday, just days after the mindless morons bombed the place. My train arrived at Euston Station just after 7am, this is the next stop from Kings Cross/St. Pancras where the worst damage was done. I was wearing my iPOD shuffle with my favorite tunes on by a group called Klaatu (never heard of them I hear you say), well they are a group from the late 70's, and it was rumoured they were the Beatles experimenting with music, its different, very melodious, and at times very rocky, they arnt the Beatles, to read more, goto "http://www.klaatu.org/" (can be found on my sidebar), so go buy / download some...... Anyway, the iPOD (we acquired that by dodgy means, and I cant tell you about that, cause I might get in big trouble). So singing my songs in my head, I got on the tube to Bank, and as we passed King's Cross (didnt stop as it was still closed), I looked out of the window I suppose a bit ghoulish of me, and most of the station was boarded up, but a couple of interconnecting tunnels were only blocked by fencing, and they showed the devastation that was done, its a bloddy mess down there, that shook me up a bit, thinking I had only been on this route the previous Wednesday and Thursday, so had the bombs gone of 1 week earlier, it could have been me......
So as we continued out of the station, the music came back to me, and I happily sang along in my head (you do not want to hear me sing - really). When I got out at Bank, the streets were not particulally busy, and the niose level was quiet by normal comparison, I just couldnt believe how somber the City was.

After my appointment, I made it back to Euston, and found myself with 40 minutes to spare, and if you know the area, Transformations shop is litterally just around the corner in Eversholt street. So I decided to head there to browse the store. I still had the iPOD playing, and found myself bopping away as I strolled the street, and must have looked real funny, with my laptop bag swinging from side to side as I wiggled my ass along the road. so if your in London, and see a girly looking bloke carrying a laptop with an iPOD shuffle playing away, and wiggling his ass, please say hello and mention you read my blog. It will most dcertainly be me.

A Sad Day for The UK And The World In General

Mindless MORON's strike at the heart of the British people, if you haven't been living on this planet for the past 48 hours, you may not be aware that London was bombed numerous times within an hour, all during peak morning rush hour. The London tube was disabled and a bus blown apart, this devastation is reputed to have killed some 40 people but the final toll will be somewhat higher.
What drives a person to do such things, I remember in my youth (only just as old age is taking over fast), getting angry and occasionally violent, but I could never bring myself to inflict such injuries and death on anyone, regardless of age, race, colour, religion, gender or for any other reason.
I felt very emotional yesterday because of this atrocious act, and at times had trouble talking about it, I still do today, and I guess I will do for several days to come. Monday I have to travel to London and do a presentation in the heart of this atrocity, I have to be with the customer by 09:00 and so will be traveling with many of the people this terrorist act affected directly. Yes I will be very nervous of this trip, but also I will be VERY proud to be standing up against the terrorists. They WILL NOT get away with this, they will not bring the UK down, we are strong and resourceful, we will hunt you down wherever you are.

London Wins Olympics 2012

Well Done London, a superb bid, and much regeneration of some very run down parts of London, and boy should I know about that. Now we have the chance to show the world how we can organise this world class event. I look forward to going to see some of the games, no idea which ones yet, but I will be there just for the experience if nothing else. This should be a fantastic time for all who attend. You never know, I might just see about becomming a volunteer and be able to get into the games for free, now theres an idea if ever I had one.
A very close fought race with the French, Spanish, Russians and Americans, but true British grit and determination wins the day.......

Children, who'd have them ?

Well some time ago I reported I was possibly going to be a grandad. well unbeknown to me, the 'alledged' baby had been lost more or less as soon as it was supposedly conceived, so that was a major relief that I was only going to be a plain simple 'old git' and not a grandad.

Then earlier this week, my son comes to live with me to escape his 'bunny boiling' girlfriend. Who we find out now is alledged to be pregnent again. So we have had fun and games this week and lots of stress, and maybe I will be a grandad after all (damn, I 'm still not old enough to be a grandad but never mind).

On the home front. Our old neighbour moved out and we have a new young couple moved in yesterday, and we have yet to see them to speak to. Last night Linda dyed my hair. Naturally, I am dark brown, and we used a medium gold blonde. It has lightened my colour a bit but nothing too noticable yet until the sun gets on it (if summer ever arrives in this country).