July 2005

July 15th, 2005. An obituary, of sorts

The previous post was written immediately I heard about the London bomb attacks, before any of the details became clear. Since then, I've been to London myself, and returned, and done a lot of thinking.

When I used to update this blog a bit more regularly, I'd write post series on your typical subjects such as What I Did On My Holidays. For example, there was a long, extended series in September and October 2002, about my friend Catherine's wedding. Before I went to Catherine's Paris wedding, I visited London; and I wrote about it briefly here and here.

On that trip, I stayed with a great person called Liz Daplyn. I knew her through Sinister, and we'd emailed each other, but had only met briefly in person. Despite that she was happy for me to stay with her for a couple of nights, and was a warm and welcoming host. She was also: intelligent, witty, charming, friendly, with nobody ever having a bad word to say about her.

Over the next few years, because of stupid things I said and did, I generally fell out with or lost touch with the people I knew from Sinister. However, many of us still posted messages to the same internet places,* and so although I wasn't privately in touch with Liz any longer, I was still in contact with her in a looser sense. I don't know what she thought of me, but it was clear that she was deeply loved and respected by everybody she touched.

On July 7th, Liz was travelling to work as normal, by Underground, when she was killed in a terrorist bomb attack. Her body was formally identified today.

* such as ILX.

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July 7th, 2005. Hello there

I haven't been posting much. I'm still alive though.

Was supposed to be going to London on Sunday, and spending most of next week there. At the moment, I am constantly refreshing whatever online news sources I can find.

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