I'm at least off on Aug 19th, 20th, then 24th and 25th, but the days when I'm working might be early shifts which would make those days fine as well, I'll find out when I see an updated roster at work.
Yes. Flights should be booked this week I expect... will post back when they are, but present plans involve terrorising the north for a week from the 13th/14th of November to the 20th, traveling to London on the 20th and then generally despoiling the atmosphere there until the 25th.
So some time between the 21st and 24th of November seems like the target window... maybe not the 24th now that I think of it... the notion of taking a transatlantic flight right after a night on the sauce seems like a likely recipe for disaster!