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All my life, I've felt that I was born on the wrong side of the ocean. This was underscored yesterday in the aftermath of the London transit bombings, as I watched the populace react to events with characteristic British understatement. Yes, this is how you deal with this sort of thing -- exactly like that.

Honestly, anyone who knows anything about Londoners culture should have known the operation was doomed to failure, anyway. The whole point of terror bombing is to send a message, and everyone knows you don't strike up conversations with strangers on the Tube. It's just not done.

I was also pleased to see #filkhaven once again creating a central place for people in the filk community to get news, check up on their friends and chosen family, and generally *be a community* for people scattered by geography but bound together by spirit. I did comment sardonically to fleetfootmike that we needed to find a better method for promoting the use of the channel, though. :)

Well done, everyone! Carry on.

Ok, so I've been neglecting catching up on trip reports, which is not unusual for me, but I didn't want to let the rest of my trip to England go unreported on, so here's part two. Maybe I'll get caught up by the weekend.

( Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour... )

Next stop -- London! See everyone who's going to be at Quinze, and I'll see everyone else when we get back!