Also long-established family and support networks, esp. if recruited from a Navy or service family in the Westcountry. And Guz being easier to get to from much of the UK (in population terms). (View Post)

I thoroughly recommend "Biggles flies undone" and "Biggles and Algy nip behind the hangar for a quick one". Old ones, I know, but still goodies. (View Post)

We - or some of us - had a similar Bigglesian discussion some years back on PB. One key point made was how grim some of the WW1 novels could be. Dulce et decorum erat to be burnt alive for the glory … (View Post)

Well, Grant Shapps did order the Mayor to do it. (View Post)

185m for dinos - you forgot the Cenozoic (aka "birds") IIRC they go back further than the Jurassic, too. (View Post)