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Nobody said she was 'obvious':

It was demolished in 1986 to make room for Sky Blue Way. Despite its mock-Tudor appearance it was actually a post-war reconstruction, the original having been bombed along with the convent next door to it.

Late 40s or early 50s as the new Owen Owen store has not been built yet.

I know you were only joking but Timothy Whites famously 'merged' with near-identical Boots in 1968 then disappeared almost overnight as a separate brand name.

Even in Timothy Whites days it was sublet to a number of other businesses:

It was in The Bull Ring, just below Butcher Row before both were redeveloped as Trinity Street. So pretty much in exactly the same place as The Flying Standard is now.

And also you have to scroll through most of the letters of the alphabet before you finally get to countries beginning with the letter "U".

It's on the site of a pub which was originally called "The Spotted Dog" and there was strong pressure to name it that when the former Timothy White building was converted into a pub.

Somewhere between 42,600 and 66,000 citizens of the Irish Free State also served in British armed forces in WW2 so your point is irrelevant. It would probably have been a lot more if Britain had not still occupied part of Ireland which soured relations between the two countries. And by the way...

I've never given a rat's arse about the 'union' and have never pretended to. It means nothing to me.

I've never met anybody in England who thought that holding onto part of Northern Ireland was a good idea, ever.

I fail to see how that is a bad thing?

I missed a whole week so I'm screwed! The reminder came through at 3.00am by which time I was embroiled in a row with an ex-moderator on another forum and slept through most of the following day.

There's nothing 'natural' about it. British Rail employed four times as many managers as the four private companies which preceded it in 1948. It was only ever nationalised for the most cynical of reasons, it was cheaper than paying wartime compensation to the private companies. If you knew...

How about when they send you an email, post the same message on several Facebook accounts and notify you on Messenger, even after you've told them several times that don't don't ever use Messenger? I think there's one in every office?

Look, if Nick says he'll do it, he'll do it! There's no need to keep reminding him every seven weeks. ;)

I can't think what you mean? ;) UK weather forecast: Horror floods as nearly 30 warnings in place - 'Immediate action!'

The easy availability of drugs certainly hasn't reduced the amount of drug crime. Cannabis cafés and shisha lounges are routinely subjected to gun and bomb attacks, I assume by rival drug suppliers.

Absolutely correct, all drugs are illegal everywhere in Holland. Various local authorities turn a blind eye to small scale usage but you can still be arrested by the state police. Where local councils have 'licensed' cannabis cafés the regulations governing them are routinely ignored.

I was in the process of watching first six in chronological order (ie: 4,5,6,1,2,3) but then someone sent me a DVD copy of the original movie and insisted on knowing what I thought of it so that sort of screwed up the timeline and ruined the whole saga for me.