[Sparkle]

I was in London.
I had just returned to my office from my lunch break and was scanning the news on various websites.

When I saw the news flash up that a passenger jet hit the WTC, I knew it could not be an accident. Of course, it was only a few moments before the horrors of the day unfolded.

I worked for a fringe theatre company in south London, we were an incredibly diverse group of people from all over the world - I remember all of us (about 30 people) crammed in to the tiny box office watching the only television that was able to pick up an external signal. No sound or words, except the broadcast & sobbing. I sat there for hours.

Outside it was a cacophony - helicopters and police and emergency response vehicles flying through; our site was with less than a mile from Parliament & very near to the MI-6 building; roads were closed down. Traffic was more jammed than normal.

But, I remember the *complete silence* on the tube home that night. The silence of 1000s of people is - immensely poignant & a lot unsettling & exactly how it should have been.