realised he's weird for wanting to be here while maybe all other angels begged to be sent back as soon as they could...

I doubt many would have been excited to come explore like Muriel is as you say.

Although I hope they aren't a complete outlier.

Hmmm, yes.
I think as population exploded, more angels and demons were sent over when Az and Crowley could not do everything anymore... but, I also think that yes, closer to the 'end' Heaven and Hell stopped caring much too.

Maybe Azi was going to be 'promoted' back to Heaven in 1800 because they

Yes, he fooled almost everybody :)

Honestly, I think we all are!

Thank you - I really should try to get some proper sleep!

Yes!!

No idea what they can possibly get out of it...

I'm not far off I swear 😂😭

They were all worded slightly differently but from the same 'account' 🙄🙄🙄

Meanwhile I am wheezing climbing up 5 floors because our lift is broken now for two weeks...

I'm re-reading them too! Lyra is wonderful and the books didn't lose their spark in the slightest. I love that.

Aziraphale is so criminally undervalued and underappreciate and misunderstood... :(

Nooo, that sounds terrifying!!

The most I've done on sea was to cross the English channel on a ferry so... I have no experience, but space?
That has no edge? I don't know how I would keep my mind from just bursting into confetti 😅

Yes - I am sure their jobs usually required them to be involved with powerful people in some way, so it would have been the easiest way to present, in Europe and then UK where they found themselves.

I wonder if there were more and more angels and demons sent to Earth as our population grew.

It is. He is certainly not a bumbling idiot who doesn't know what he's doing or who he is.