my best mate is in work, crapping her pants and all her other co-workers are carrying on talking insurance jargon crap not bothered by it all considering an explosion has gone off just roads away?!?!?

what? where did you hear that?

Don't worry Mr Statto - I'm sure Mummy Statto is fine, please let me know once you've heard from her though! I do worry!

Thanks for your concern Saucy. I'm suspecting that she's just stuck somewhere, because she didn't leave Smitham until 9:25, so even if she'd changed onto a fast train she wouldn't have been to London until 10 - after everything happened.

That's just the ramblings of a madman

We've been instructed to stay in the building u.f.n.

I would suggest that if you work in the City and you haven't been told to evacuate, you stay put.

Old, Ungifted and White

Don't get too panicky about things like EC - they have also closed Brihton and Swindon due to "security incidents". There will be a lot of panicky folks around today, quite understandably, and a lot of perfectly innocent things will look like bombs. I reported one on a bus myself when the IRA were operating - just someone's bag forgotten.

I do wonder whether if yesterday's decision had gone differently we might have been talking about Paris, Madrid, Moscow or New York? Or it could be because of G8.

Raging Against The Dying of the Light!

Or maybe just getting older and slower....

Given that half the Met are up at Gleneagles, this looks like a perfect opportunity to cause maximum chaos and disruption.