I love to go places by train but oversea from the UK the options get somewhat limited, especialy if I am going to the states, as I will be this weekend. Still yet to try the Eurostar though.

I also enjoy flying aand its attendant bits and pieces, the movies , meals and drinks, and have done for years, both for work and pleasure. The atrocity of 11th September is not going to stop me making my journey to the States, that after all would chalk one up for the vermin that did it.

Because of the work I do I recently undertook a course dealing with the extraction of casualties from car wreaks. The instructors had a seemingly endless supply of potographic and video material to show whatever point they were making. They also stated that while cars are better built etc. than they were, the supply of up to date instructional material is not expected to diminish.

So at the end of the day shit happens, I just hope that should it happen to me I neither embarress myself or put someone else in even more danger while trying to save my own skin. We can hide in our houses, providing they don't burn down round our ears, or we can go out and carry on living.

Sledge