It's been a strange 24 hours.

Yesterday I was a tad disapointed. I didn't want Steven Gerrard leaving Liverpool but it was something that had become inevitable. Then came the U-turn. The flip-flop. The 180 degree back again. That made for a happier evening. Although I'm still a little pissed off at him.

I also finally got my hands on my Saints membership pack. New scarf, hat, bits and pieces and card to get me into the remaining home games of the season.

A night out in Fitzroy, drinking a few beers and eating the largest chicken burger I've ever seen. Half the chicken was hanging out of the bun it was that big.

The world fell apart again in the taxi home. Several hours after the events in London we finally heard about them. Being English we're sort of used to terrorist attacks. The IRA had been at it for years. The odd bomb here and there, usually though with prior warning. Damage done but no harm. Yesterday's events though were somewhat more shocking. Unlike 9/11 this happened in my own country in a city where I have friends.

I didn't sleep well last night. Watching the ABC/CNN/ITV coverage broadcast on Aussie tv was scary enough. Seeing a bus ripped apart, tube stations full of ambulances. Things I'd hope never to see and never want to see again.

Today I've had emails from a couple of friends in London.

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Name: Justine Website: http://www.whereisjustine.com Date: 2005-07-09 01:02:45 Report This Comment

Comment: Really has a way of bringing "it" all the way "home," doesn't it? (no pun intended) You're feeling, even being in Oz now, is probably similar to mine, after having taken a similar flight from NYC to DC just a day before the same flights were comandeered and the city I'd just visited and the friends I'd just made were so near the destruction. You can't really describe it, but it really makes you feel your own mortality. And it makes you want to DO something to help those in the global community, but I don't know what that is. Hopefully, at least some of my tax dollars will be sent over to England.