First Reactions

When news first arrived last week, you knew what was going on immediately, you just hoped that 'power surge' might actually something that could ever happen, it just hadn't made the news before. Then when SKY started talking about a bomb on a bus, again there was still that faint hope that, 'hey, SKY make shit up all the time', sadly this time they were spot on and the attacks we were always expecting had finally arrived.

From the comfort of an office, even in the same city that's under attack from these morons, it's hard to take in what's going on, and what made things even more sureal was how so many people around me were completely unaffected by the news that was now coming through on the crappy office radio.

LONDON IS BEING ATTACKED BY TERRORISTS

But some people felt the pressing issues of invoices and faxes was more important. Now I understand that for some people a way of dealing with such significant moments in life is to carry on regardless, but this wasn't about that, this was something colder, that I felt had to deal with.
The realities of what a bomb on a tube would do to the bodies of the victims would come to me, knowing the agony and pain that dozens of people were going through right at that moment, not more than a few miles away, and these colleagues around me carried on regardless. Bizarre.