[WillowTheWhisp]

Well I'd rather have people doing and telling than nobody doing anything.

I'm a school governor and we have committees which report back to the governing body as a whole. There are even small "working groups" for specific purposes. Otherwise it wouldn't function. Everybody can't do everything but nobody thinks of the committees as cliques because when they have done their thing then they report back and on it goes so everyone knows what's going on.

The appointees/committees could report back on here just as easily. Or we could all sit back and just type away to our hearts content and do nothing. Why don't we ask for nominations for a committee and then ask the nominees if they will accept? Even put it to a vote afterwards if you like just to be sure everyone is happy that they have had input.

Of course you couldn't expect people living abroad to have one-to-one dealings with HBC or something like that so it would have to be thought out in a practical way but there's nothng to stop ex-pats from writing letters if they wanted to is there?