Absolutely agree
Whenurhgappy - really loved my times there (best fun I've had outside of a cockpit!), but
a. I'm a Londoner originally so felt I'd "come home".
b. I was lodging both times, so could (and sometimes actually did!) walk to work.
c. Had high pressure/high profile jobs - it would probably not have been the right surroundings in which to have been under-employed - but then I didn't know anyone who was!
One star wanders into office on 4th floor 0930-ish:
"Teeters - can you do a "quick and dirty" brief on RAF contribution to OP xxxxxx by midday for me....... [dramatic pause] .... CDS is flying out to theatre with Tony Blair (the then PM) in the morning, and wants to brief him in the 125 en route - I'll walk it round this 6th floor this afternoon ....."
Gives one a bit of a buzz does that.
