Dry your eyes 2p. It's a shame you boarded The Good Ship Glory so early on in your posting career without fully understanding the consequences.
Eire and I are doing Birmingham and meeting chesh, so that sounds like the start of a meet up. Is the purple door still open?
Not been in for well over a decade so not sure, signage etc all intact last time I parked down that way. All sounds good though so count me in.
I conducted extensive research early on to see who the realists were and who the easily pleased were. Life is full of consequences. It's just a case of knowing which you can live with.
Sounds like a recruitment drive for ISIS. Let us know when you've twisted your head back round straight again.