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On: Fri, 4329 Sep 1993 06:44:37 GMT
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Terribly remiss of me not to have spotted this sooner. The Family
Potnoodle, in all its variants, is fine.
I work to the east of London and, although we are on a heightened
state of alert (being as I work at a power station, we're considered
something of a target) we are otherwise unaffected.
Mrs. P was safely at home in Southend.
Young Master P was at work off Oxford Street, in the middle of
London's West End, but had cycled to work and was already there when
the explosions happened. He walked home (5 or 6 miles, around 9 km)
just to keep colleagues company who had to do the same, but was
otherwise fine.
My eldest brother was at work less than a mile (less than a km, even)
from the Edgware Road explosion, but as a cyclist he was again
entirely unharmed and not hugely affected by events.
My next eldest brother was out and about in London on his moped doing
"The Knowledge" (learning routes as a prerequisite for becoming a
Black Cab driver), but nowhere near the areas affected.
However (there has to be a "however"), everyone has been touched in
some way by events. One of my son's friends was in the tube carriage
behind the one that contained the Aldgate bomb. He lost all his hair
in the blast (*all* -- no eyebrows even) and saw things that he ought
not to have had to see. As a result he has become withdrawn, and is
causing his friends and family a great deal of concern. :-(
--
Malcolm, Southend-on-Sea, UK