I'm a bit off today since I'm coming down with a slight cold and trying to absorb all the news in London. We woke up to the news of the bombings and are slightly affected by the aftermath in terms of traffic restrictions. All transportation has been stopped within, into and from the city and everyone has been advised to stay at home/indoors until further notice.

The explosions, and thus the extent of the damage, was contained within Central London. As I am living 30 miles north in Greater London, and none of us were commuting today, we are all very safe and sound. A lot of people we know do commute and they did bomb our station in the city but thankfully, no one that we know has been hurt. One person almost boarded the bus that exploded but it was too full so he boarded the next one and just suffered from the loud noise.

The BBC has been televising and broadcasting the most up to date news all day long and to date, they've linked it to Al Quaida (sp?) and the G8 talks are resuming with the Foreign Minister acting in place of PM Blair who has returned to London. The major is also enroute since he was in Singapore for the Olympic bid vote yesterday. Talk about politics in the making!!! So far, they have counted 33 dead and 400 injured. Though this is tragic, we are so grateful it's not a worse count.

All the same, I'm rather shaken since we're so close to central London and all and use those same train and subways whenever we go into the city. Not that we must live in fear but it's still scary when it happens right next to you!

My heart goes out to everyone who lives in an area where such twisted tragedy unfortunately happens on a regular basis...