[Jayne Osborn]

I must be a vegetable myself: my mind responds only with blankness to this comp. Hats off to those of who have managed to make so much of an unprepossessing rubric.

Then I must be a vegetable too, Adrian. I guess you and I won't be seeing our names in The Oldie for this one!

And, dear Sylvia, I can hardly believe this: "But my policy is, never to enter anything for a competition that has been published, in a book or on the net, or that has won another comp. Am I being too po-faced about it?"

If the rules don't say you can't, then you can. Publish and be damned, like Wellington

Jayne