Likey's Blog

Today marks the anniversary of the 7/7 bombing in London from 4 years ago, a memorial in Hyde Park which consists of 52 stainless steel pillars has been created – not to symbolise the 52 weeks of the year or the 52 playing cards in a deck but in honour for the victims who died that day.

This brings back memories of my journey to work that day towards Liverpool Street. It was interesting as I was chatting to my friend the day before about conspiracy theories, so when I was on my way to work an announcement was made for everyone to get off the tube and go up onto the streets I knew this could potentially be something BAD! I got off at Westminster station and could hear sirens and see loads of people trying to get on buses to make their way to work.

It didn’t feel right, I knew it couldn’t have been a regular tube problem and felt that an attack on London was very possible. I rang my friend who said “I TOLD YOU, I TOLD YOU!”, I reacted by saying if this is true we need to get out of London as soon as possible! Unfortunately I didn’t have my hands-free kit with me so was unable to listen to the radio on my phone to hear what was going on. I rang my now ex-girlfriend to check the news but no one knew that it was an attack yet, I might have scared a few people in the cafe because I said out loud my speculation that the bridges could be blown and that I had to get out of Central London as soon as possible otherwise I could be stuck here or worse!

When I finally got through to my boss I explained that I’d be late and he simply said to turn around and go home if I could so that’s exactly what I did. Shortly after that the mobile network went dead – no one were able to make calls for hours. I managed to get on a bus heading out of Central London, as soon as I was over the bridge I felt safe. I made it home for around 10:30am and immediately turned on the news to find out what was going on, the first images I saw were the blown up bus! I wasn’t surprised to find out that bombs went off but was shocked that I was so close to it all, especially as I was heading towards Liverpool Street. On the Derren Brown Forum there were pages and pages in a thread where everyone were worried sick about me and those who lived and worked in London, they were glad that none of us were hurt.

Speaking of Derren, he has been busy touring for his new theatre show ENIGMA and he’s currently at the last hurdle which is in the West-End here in London. I have front row tickets for this Saturday and looking forward to it, it has been extended for a further 3 days (23rd-25th July) so if you can get here then I advise you to get tickets if you’re interested.