7/7
I was at work on Thursday morning when I first heard of the explosions in London. It escapes me how a group of people can actually think they can justify something like that as “The will of God”, which is no doubt how they think they will claim to excuse cold blooded, calculated, indiscriminate murder.
Religious leaders from all faiths have condemned the bombings and they represent no religion I know of, merely the sick delusional thoughts of the few very disturbed people who brainwashed them into doing it. I have a lot of feelings about it but I’ll just sum it up by saying whatever they thought they were achieving, they failed. I have been so impressed by the way Londoners and the British people as a whole have reacted to it all, I’d almost go as far to say I’m proud to be British. That’s probably all they have achieved.
Birmingham
I went to Birmingham, despite having doubts about arriving in the semi-underground train station of Britain’s second city during rush hour, the day after the bombings. And indeed on Saturday they evacuated the city centre where I had been the previous day.
But anyway, it was quite a productive day. I got a few hours of consulting discussing my single sign-on system which it turned out had no simple answer but was certainly something worth working on. Then I hopped to the next train station and had a walk around Birmingham University on graduation day. I managed to convince the travel agent to give me a student card then got quite lost wandering around Birmingham aimlessly for three hours.
The twins’ 18th
The twins next door had their 18th birthday on Saturday night which was a lot of fun, though I spent far too much money on drinks. Nick and djkoa turned up later in the evening and all were merry.
Camping
lauperr and I slept in a tent last night and cooked sausage, bacon, eggs and spaghetti hoops in a mess tin over a very small camping stove. It tasted so good by the time we eventually got around to eating it!