stoic londoners indeed
cor blimey guv'nor!! what is going in the world these days. I reckon you all know about it so I won't bored you with the details. I and all those that I know in and around London are good and well (thanks for you concern, JB).
It's not as if bombings haven't happened in England or London before but it all seems quite surreal for some reason. I suppose because it's so close to home (living in the London area, that is) and that I've got a better understanding of the world now than I did before (hardly watched the news many years ago).
But it was good to see that the Londoners were keeping up with the true British tradition of 'stiff upper lip'. At some point during the continuous news, a reporter told of people in fear but the visuals showed a load of people lining up at a bus stop, seemingly uneffected by the event - I thought that was amusing - kind of like, "whatever..."
at 10pm: 38 dead, over 700 injured.
On to more cheerful news, turns out that Nav had picked up a poisonous caterpillar at Lands End (see Round England with a Coolbox blog - Lands End post). I suppose it should have been obvious, really, what with it being brightly coloured. And also, that wasn't a snake that we found in Portland.
I tried out those So Doku puzzles in The Times T2 section today, and I managed to get the first done, then messed up the 2nd and 3rd. The last one (the hardest of all three), I thought I was doing quite well thinking that I made a successful guess at placing the numbers, but I was wrong. I just turns out to be a case of trial and error I reckon (or luck), because I don't see any other way of finding out the correct numbers without going through practically the whole thing. And then it turns into another guess-session when you get to another dead-end.
And I also found out that Ben Folds might be doing another (short) tour in London this coming winter. Will definately have to go see that, although tickets are £30. Mind, I reckon it'll be worth it.
Now going to find out how much my Round England trip cost...
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