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In fact I would suggest Dan Walker was at least partly responsible for the daily briefings happening in the first place, because he tweeted to the effect around that time "it would be good if we had a daily press conference" which got a lot of traction and then they started doing it.
This is all fascinating stuff, it's all really interesting to read. As suggested, it seemed to happen really quickly, in that on the weekend of 7th March everything was as normal, my partner went out on Saturday night and on the Sunday we went to Westfield, then in work that week there was a bit of "well, imagine if it did happen here", but things were still pretty normal - on the Tuesday my colleague went up to Manchester for a meeting, on the Wednesday (when I remember watching Simon McCoy on BBC News in Wakefield High Street after the Budget) I watched the Liverpool match and my partner went out with her friends, and on Thursday I left the office before the end of an unrelated meeting so I didn't miss the train.
On Friday 13th I decided to work from home just to make sure all was OK if I needed to do it more, then pondered all weekend if I should go in on Monday, decided I would if only to grab some stuff, but my train was cancelled due to a signal failure so I took that as a sign and didn't go in. And I haven't been in since, and that was the last day any of my colleagues were in the office too. Life comes at you fast.
The other week Danny Baker on Twitter asked what Day One would be in all the films about it, and someone suggested it had to be Friday 13th, not just because it was so appropriate, but because that was the day the football was cancelled.
For me, it was the afternoon of Thursday 12th March when BBC One joined the News Channel for the first government daily briefing presented by a serious looking Simon McCoy.
In fact I would suggest Dan Walker was at least partly responsible for the daily briefings happening in the first place, because he tweeted to the effect around that time "it would be good if we had a daily press conference" which got a lot of traction and then they started doing it.
This is all fascinating stuff, it's all really interesting to read. As suggested, it seemed to happen really quickly, in that on the weekend of 7th March everything was as normal, my partner went out on Saturday night and on the Sunday we went to Westfield, then in work that week there was a bit of "well, imagine if it did happen here", but things were still pretty normal - on the Tuesday my colleague went up to Manchester for a meeting, on the Wednesday (when I remember watching Simon McCoy on BBC News in Wakefield High Street after the Budget) I watched the Liverpool match and my partner went out with her friends, and on Thursday I left the office before the end of an unrelated meeting so I didn't miss the train.
On Friday 13th I decided to work from home just to make sure all was OK if I needed to do it more, then pondered all weekend if I should go in on Monday, decided I would if only to grab some stuff, but my train was cancelled due to a signal failure so I took that as a sign and didn't go in. And I haven't been in since, and that was the last day any of my colleagues were in the office too. Life comes at you fast.
The other week Danny Baker on Twitter asked what Day One would be in all the films about it, and someone suggested it had to be Friday 13th, not just because it was so appropriate, but because that was the day the football was cancelled.