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That's weird Snatcher.

 

It happens to my sister too, and I seem to get away with missing it....

 

IRA Bank Bombing in early nineties.

I was due to meet Fran in the city, near where she was working. Tubes were delayed. Called her from Euston call box to say I would be 20 mins late. Spoke to her work, she had already left. Fran was 1/4 mile away when bomb went off. Luckily she was around a corner and away from harm, but she heard blast and saw aftermath.

 

 

London Nail Bomb in Old Compton Street:

I arrange to meet Fran in The Intrepid Fox (just round corner from Old C Street) before going on to a friends bash in Tottenham Court Road.

 

I get caught up at work and call her to say I will meet her at bash instead. She leaves Intrepid Fox and walks down Old Compton Street before heading towards Tot' Crt Rd. As she turns corner of Old Compton Street, bang. She missed it by 30 secs.

 

 

7th July 2005

Fran drops her daughter at ours for my wife to child-mind. We walk to Archway tube together. I sometimes get bus to Holloway road and get picadilly line. Went with Fran instead to Archway. Tubes very busy, after 20 mins trying to get on I say I'll go and get bus to Holloway Rd tube, Fran squeezes on next one and heads towards Kings Cross where she is evacuated. Main bit closed off so she just sees emergency services, and heads to Russell Square - again she ends up just around the corner, this time from the bus bomb in Tavistock Square.

 

It is very likely had I not been with Fran (and was only with her as I was running late) I would have caught the bus we walked past to holloway road and been on the the train with the bomb between Kings Cross and Russell Square on the Picadilly line.

 

 

Why is fate so kind to me and so nasty to her?! Strange.

 

Simon

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Good to hear she's okay Snatcher :)

 

Now lock her up for her own safety :rolleyes:

 

(She never comes to Hull, does she?)

John S

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Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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Good to hear she's okay Snatcher :)

 

Now lock her up for her own safety :rolleyes:

 

(She never comes to Hull, does she?)

 

No John she has never been to Hull YET!! :headhurt:

 

 

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