When I first started going up to London I was bothered and eyed up everyone with a haversack but now I find I don't think about it. My friend Pat's son was in the tube and his life was saved because he was sitting on one of the seats at the side of the door on the end of the carriage so was protected from the blast. He works in London and uses the tube still and so does she. I'm more scared driving on the roads than I am in London. Maggie I can understand how some folk can hate London, it can be overpowering, dirty - Very in some places, and Noisy coming from a quiet town or village into noisy tubes and the crowds, BUT for all of that I Love London and there is still so much Beauty there. Regrettably I now only use London to either visit family and friends when able to ...or to do Genealogy. I lived up in Telford around the time of the '74 Birmingham IRA bombing and that didn't stop me still going there to shop and from 1977 living down in Bucks saw me often going through London visiting family, then also Genealogy and a Job, still with the scares of the IRA, and when home I I have still gone to London and sort of circled almost the whole of the Circle line to go where I was heading even with the latest scares ... I am not saying I'm not afraid I'm very wary but then If you want to enjoy the time thats left to you then Life has to go on, and if you want a Life you have to take some challenges and get about ...just maybe not London :-)))) Marlene ... whose life has been full of scary ups and downs and happenings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Oooops no, I didn't mean that but I was thinking of > the times I had been asked up to London and I always > said that was the last place on earth I wanted to > go. What I meant was that now I don't say that. I > also believe that I'm going to get on and do what I > can, while I can. Who knows what tomorrow will > bring and I'm already regretting things that I was > going to do but put off till later. > Maggie __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Trivvies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Trivvies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms.html