For the benefit of anyone worrying...

[lethargic_man]

...about the bombs in London, I'm okay.

(Wish I'd cycled to work today, though, rather than yesterday and (putatively) tomorrow; it would have taken me half an hour to get in as against the hour and three quarters it actually did, and I'd have been well away from affected bombs and busses...)

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

glad to hear it.

Stat Alert, Citizens!

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

After yesterday's accident involving the leader of the free world and a mountain, it may well be that bicycles are viewed as terrorists and you risk being sent to Guantanamo Bay by riding one.

Re: Stat Alert, Citizens!

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Wrong country, comrade! Surely you mean the concentration camp on the Isle of Wight?

[loubieloutoo.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you are ok, we are very out of the way down and I get in very early so we didn't know about the bombs until after the bus had gone. Please stay safe.

[liv]

Thanks for posting. It really helps to see stuff like this on my flist. *hug*

So you're stuck in White City at the moment? And you were commuting through this morning's chaos?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Yup. Actually, the first bomb had already gone off by the time I got on the Tube. At Euston the alarm was going telling passengers to leave the station, but my train continued on to the next station before informing us the train had been held indefinitely at the station due to an incident down the line. I didn't wait, but got off and transferred to the Victoria Line, only to find the same happening there. At which point we were told to evacuate the station due to "a power surge affecting north London" (which was a lie but ensured people got out of the station without panicking), so I walked the three stops to Tottenham Court Road in the hope that the Central Line was running.

Of course, it wasn't, so I took a bus, having researched shortly after work moved to White City which buses I would need if the Tube went into meltdown. (I was actually susprised that I recognised the aboveground route pretty much the whole of the way; I still had a mental picture of western central London beyond Hyde Park as being out of my ken, but it immediately segued into the Notting Hill area which we know^*.)

I can get home in two buses from here without going into Central London at all. Nevertheless, I do expect them to be packed by people displaced from the Tube, and won't be surprised if several go straight past without stopping for me.

It's rather annoying that both times the Tube network went into meltdown since I came here have been days when I've been taking the Tube and not cycling.