Questions for our UK HPphiles

[alice_loves_cats]

<<<GulPlum's long post on British phone numbers>>>

Richard, that was immensly helpful, and I wasn't even the one to ask.
I frequently have problems with British phone numbers, expecially
since they've been changed at least twice during the past ten years.
The system is also rather less standardized than than the Hungarian
that I'm used to (of course, having a population of a mere 10 million
makes things easier - area codes are ALWAYS 2-digit codes, and numbers
ALWAYS have 7 digits apart from the area code, etc.), so ringing up my
grandmother and various other relations from here has been a
complicated business, but not nearly as awful as ringing them from
London, with the country code disappearing and who knows what coming
in instead.

I think that when ringing from abroad, the customary +44 knocks off
the initial 0 from the area code, doesn't it? And then when ringing
inside England, it's there again. Correct me if I'm wrong. :-)

Love, Alice
---drinking tea. There are few things in life that tea cannot solve. :)