Where is the Herring Gull?

I believe they are nesting at Besthorpe, could have come from there.

I just turn off now when he comes on. Leave it 90 minutes or so and he's gone and nothing important has happened (hopefully).

Not Constantinople specific, but.

River Kings by Cat Jarman relates the story of the interaction between the Vikings and Byzantium.

Theodoric The Goth by Thomas Hodgkin is the life story of the king of the ostrogoths who was Viceroy of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Absolutely. I scared someone a fortnight ago by remembering their full name and hometown from a brief conversation four years previous.

Or fighting it's own reflection.