My post in the Forum about HoW 2012 has perhaps not received your full attention, for a lot of different reasons.

So let me now ask loud and clear -  who would like to come and be inspired in your writing by all things British sometime in the summer of next year, 2012?

Scotland is looking like the preferred part of the UK by a few of us here - you'll love it, and not just because of the malt whisky.

I am happy to organise things - all I need is to know that we have a few…

There’s something going on with hedgehogs. Jumping through windows, spines shining silver-mauve, or wheeling broccoli florets down a dark path quite smoothly.

I do believe they’re my armoured protection, for my soft underbelly. I need their spikes, just in case.

 We can come out dancing now, you and me, wheeling in the moonlight to the strains of a military band. A little distant and, of course, marching away from us.

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