A Surreal Day

Well, what can I say? One minute this morning we were looking at newspaper photos of where the new Olympic stadiums will be built (right where Jon used to live, in fact you could see his old flat in the photos) and chatting about our soon-to-be visit to London. Next minute we were stood watching the news in mounting horror and disbelief. Not much one can say, really is there? Horrific.

The rest of the day has passed in a kind of surreal haze. I've had this extremely tight deadline to meet (and haven't finished the work yet!) so I've been pounding away at the keyboard all day, on and off listening to the news, Jon has been entertaining Emily; we've also been playing banquets behind a golden curtain we've set up under her bed...Tudor people eating neopets food (cut out and stuck on from here a few months ago during the neopets fanatic stage) from plates covered in names of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses (thus designed during our Egyptian stage, for a previous Egyptian banquet). Fairly bizarre, but it seemed to go down well. The bewilderment on a child's face when you try to explain what went on today....how can you explain it to a little one? We'll just cuddle up even closer.