Thank you for comments people. I'm afraid I didn't go round the blogroll checking - I mean, what would it mean if someone hadn't posted? That they were injured? Walking miles? Stopping off for coffee? In an office where everyone was trying -and failing - to access the internet? I did the blog rounds via the aggregator and kinja.
So thank you to everybody who has left comments here, and has also sent their messages via newsgroups etc. Just to prove that human beings are kind, caring, decent. To be honest, I feel a bit of a fraud. I had a not unpleasant stroll along the river, one of only a handful of people who realised that between Waterloo and Westminster the South Bank is significantly shorter than the North Bank (the river curves...!) I was tempted to go for a ride on the queueless Eye. And would have done if the day was clear and sunny.
I posted a message to an opera newsgroup "Tonight's Otello is cancelled - PLEASE PLEASE don't cancel tomorrow's Walkure" Someone emailed me to say my sentiments were out of place. Made me pause for thought. Then I thought, bollocks, we struggle in on overcrowded flakey transport to jobs that we, at best, tolerate for two reasons. One, to pay the bills, and, two, to fund the pleasures in life, from wine to Wagner and everything else as well.
Going round the blogs now, I am confirmed that my sentiments are not out of place. This is London. We bounce back. The bars may be quieter than normal tonight, or maybe not, as people stagger their journeys. We get knocked down, we get up again. IRA bombs, riots, nailbombs, railcrashes, storms, snow, powercuts. They don't affect us - unless we're truly unlucky.
