[HPFGU-OTChatter] To our UK friends

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathryn" <kcawte at kcawte.freeserve.co.uk>

> I figured I could add to this thread since I've been watching
it on News 24
> and make a few minoe corrections.

SNIP

> Frankly I'm sitting here being incredibly grateful that I'm a
lazy sod since
> I was supposed to be going home today and that might well have
been my train
>  As it was I hadn't even managed to leave Windsor when the news
broke. Most
> of my thoughts are with the families etc etc, but there is one,
relatively
> small, and incredibly selfish part of my brain, which is
bemoaning the fact
> that it's my birthday this weekend and I want to go home damn
it. Instead I
> m stuck here till someone can come and get me. However, things
could be much
> worse so I'll just have to stop being such a brat and get over
it.

I hope you have a Happy Birthday and that it won't be too long
until you get fetched home.  Thanks for the additional
information.  I keep going back to the picture of the carriage on
the platform and I wonder that there were so few deaths out of
it.  I don't recall the railways being anywhere near that bad
when I lived in London back from '85 through '88...  The biggest
thing we had was the Kings Cross Tube Station fire... (another
event that could have been so very much worse than it was!)

Bernadette

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival."
-- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963).