There are some green shoots appearing in a discussion at the UK Bloggers Discuss group today. It's about bloody time us Euros / Brits (delete as appropriate) stepped out from behind the shadow our American friends who seem to be able to conference themselves to within an inch of their lives (something to do with geography/currency/language/transport etc.) but regardless of why we haven't done so yet, we really do need to throw away this stupid British reserve syndrome thing and get out a little more.

Here's hoping.