Big bang

Woken up this morning at 6am thinking that my neighbour had fallen out of bed, but then realised that car alarms were going off. He's not a small chap, but even so. But I didn't think much of it, and rolled over to go back to sleep.

It was only at 10am I got a text from Mum. "Please tell me you were nowhere near that explosion."

Yep, I was actually woken up by an oil depot self-destructing 35 miles away in Hemel Hempstead. And I'm already hearing of people who heard it in Staines, Oxford and Clapham. My that's a big explosion.

Quite a few colleagues and clients live pretty close to that depot, and I think I'll be hearing a lot more about this one tomorrow.

What's more, it's probably too soon to joke about it.