I work in a tower block in the centre of London, that is actually used as a visual marker by aircraft, both commercial and military. Anything that has to bank around London uses my office as a pivot as it's the tallest building for some distance, in the centre of London (Metropolis as opposed to City) so is highly visible. Planes flying out from Heathrow go round one side of it, north of the river, turning down past the City, over East London to go south, west and east. Planes coming into London, use the river as a marker, turning west and northwards as they pass my office to go to Heathrow. Anything military coming out of Northolt to go east, uses my office as a marker. We don't have bomb drills, because we don't have an interior staircase. Our bomb drill is to go stand by your desk with your coat on, ready to evacuate if necessary. That will really help! The building I work in is well known for being a government office. The actions of 11/09/2001 (and Lanfranc, I'd already written it properly in a previous posting) have made a lot of people in my building very nervous but even more have been made cynical by the media coverage of that tragedy.

I have tried very hard not to think 'it won't happen to me' because if I started to think that, I might never get out of my bed ever. Mind you, more people die in bed, so maybe I'll just stay on the sofa but never leave my house, ever. We take a risk by just opening the curtains. Who knows what is waiting outside the window, or whether the curtain pole will fall on your head, or will you trip on the rug before you even get to the window..... see what I mean? I have enough trouble living my day to day life without having my fears and emotions highlighted, manipulated and whipped into a frenzy by the media. And yes, they did the same over the Princess of Wales. And I blanked that too.

LTS