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I'm all right. I'm not even in the UK. I'm typing this slowly on an azerty keyboard in the only netcafé in Luxembourg. They don't seem to have wifi in coffee shops here either, much. I spent yesterday wandering round with my laptop looking for somewhere I could tell you all about my sudden madcap adventure and failing. When he was leaving Rhi's on Sunday [livejournal.com profile] jezzidue asked in jest over his shoulder if anyone wanted a lift to Luxembourg on Tuesday. I don't think he was expecting anyone to take him up on it. But I did, and he has been graciously providing crash-space for a few days while I explore the town.

I had a big excited ain't-that-cool post in mind about my wanderings yesterday but now is so not the time. I was woken by a text from mum asking if I was ok and turned on the TV and was convinced [livejournal.com profile] verlaine was working at Paddington near Edgware Road and had a panic when he didn't answer my texts, but he got a message to me through Abi. Thanks Abi. Thank you all who texted to check on me. And isn't LJ great at times like this?

I'm stunned and angry. Poor London. I hate London about half the time but today I want to take it in my arms.

Date: 2005-07-07 02:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] gothwalk.livejournal.com
And isn't LJ great at times like this?

I'm admiring the spontaneous networking that's going on to get messages and information around - literally re-routing around the outages of phones and so on. [livejournal.com profile] london_070705 has been providing a non-stop rolling update, plus roll call, and I know people here in the office have been redistributing messages to friends and family. One co-worker's mother had just stepped out of a Tube station when the explosion went off behind her. She was on her way to a psychiatry conference, so she continued on her way, grabbed ten or twelve therapists when she got there, and marched them off to the nearest hospital to help deal with people in shock.

Date: 2005-07-07 03:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
Go her. What was that saying of yours about the internet? It wasn't "I love the internet with a passion that knows no bounds", but it was like that. I feel that way today.

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