London is a frequent destination for B&W, so we were saddened by the news coming out of there today. (Here's a chilling personal account.) Our friends and relations there seem to be OK, and today's events even seem to have brought out the Churchill in some of them (here's a much-cited and lauded response to today). We're glad for that. But the photos of carnage in Russell Square and Tavistock Square, only a block or two from our usual Bloomsbury hotel, are difficult viewing indeed for me. It is devastating to see these places, where we have spent many happy hours hanging out in the park and reading the Guardian, as targets. The Kittyjoyce collective won't be going to the UK this year, having just made plans to go West instead, but we send sympathy and good wishes to our London bretheren today.

In terms of visual panache, the London Underground stations outdo the CTA by a mile. The Russell Square tube station is a good example. Here's a photo from our trip last year.

*on the Northern line. None of them is yours, one of them is mine.