Well, it all heals

[sparkindarkness]

I'm told from relatives that London is surprisingly normal this morning, one (a rather insensitive uncle I never get on with) pointed out a newspaper headline from Germany:

You can't bomb the British, they just ignore it and carry on as normal.

It amused me no end (in an inappropriate fashion of course, especially given it was a German paper). But I do think it's very true. Interlock ha sposted a link on her journal (will come back and do the HTML thing when I'm less drunk tired) about peopel drinking tea. Soic stubborness and blase behaviour is very British.

My 2 colleagues got back OK. 1 was in court, safe and spent all the time grumbling about the delay on the trains. The other was actually on the tube at the time and pretty close to Kings Cross - he was evacuated and caught up among lots of smoke blackened people. He's similarly blase, but I'm a little worried about him, I think he may be in minor shock - he kept loosing the thread and staring into space and he shook, ever so slightly, now and then. I think the bosses agreed, because they put the kettle on (yes, they used their own sainted hands!)

I alsop found out 2 of my cousins were in London (I have about 38 people I call 'cousin' I lose track). Gareth had a hell of a commute (and moaned). Heidi asked me "what bombs?" Crazy mad scientist that she is - she hasn't left her oncology lab for 4 days and didn't realise anything had happened.

Comments

[gnarlycranium.livejournal.com]

That's odd... heh it makes me think of that restaurant scene in Brazil where the wall blows up and the waiters bring in screens to set around the tables while the old ladies yell to be heard chatting over the noise of the screaming and the swat teams running through with machine guns.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I believe there is something in our genes that inclines us toward obsessive compulsive disorder. We are all inclined to utterly obsess at times.

Heidi is an oncologist - she doesn't do bedside, she does tests in labs (all the smears and blood samples) and is a researcher into cures. She will spend days at the lab, camping in a corner, refusing to go home. They bring her in food when they cannot convince her to go home.

[meridae.livejournal.com]

Glad that you and yours are okay, and that a good cup of tea can still fix everything! I've decided to be British today in honor of y'all - I can do that because my Mum is English and my Dad is scottish, so I have a decidedly British heritage. Oh, and my grandfather pushed frightened paratroopers out of planes in wwII, so that counts too. Then he came home and had a cup of tea (strangely he prefers coffee now, and I should comment when I've just woken up).

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Tea is the ambrosia. It is known.