Getting back to normal

First day back in the office after last week's bombings and.... pretty much back to normal except it's not. Everyone's showing a bit more interest in everyone else. It's as if we all know that we could so easily have lost one of our number. Well, I guess that's true. Some of my colleagues came pretty close to being caught up directly in the bombings and while we waited for news of the no-shows on Thursday there was that awful possibility that we could have lost someone. We didn't, but it could so easily have been a different story.

And then at lunchtime today London Bridge was evacuated and we heard the tell-tale bang of a controlled explosion. It turns out that the suspect package was in fact the belongings of a homeless person, stashed in a skip for the day. You can't be too careful but interestingly now that we know we are targets, the feeling looking out of our window wasn't terror but fascination. After all, Al Qaeda don't give warnings so the chances were it was a false alarm. The police yet again did a great job, the area was cleared and the whole thing was over inside 30 minutes.

A selection of t-shirts are now available showing defiance against the bombers (http://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?sid=73338&op=articles). I can't decide whether I think they are cool. I think they are as long as the chap selling them does as he says and donates the profits to the Red Cross. Otherwise it would be a rather ghoulish enterprise. And that dilemma in a nutshell sums up the Brits. We are both bloody-minded and sceptical. God Bless Us!