Five years ago today I was in exactly this suite in my hotel in Rome when the news came on. I had a terrible sinking in my stomach. It's in my manor, Grenfell; just around the corner from where I've lived for almost 60 years. It never ceases to amaze me how certain things cross over geographical distances. My heart and my head were outside the tower, feeling horror, fear, pity, terror. I literally felt physically ill.

things like the Grenfell tragedy have seriously put me right off high rise buildings.

Now I live in a ground floor flat in a building of only 3 stories because of it !
(every day I thanks the local council who proclaimed Bondi Beach with it's 100s of small blocks like mine will never have high rises ).