THE FIRST REPLIES:
"All European Weres please read this..."

Farthing W Fox's Reply:

Ululations!

Hiyerf!

I've gathered you all here for a reason. It would seem that on our side of the pond, we are slightly lacking in the Howling department. It's a bit impractical for us to scoot over to America for a Howl, which leaves us Europeans a bit left out of it. So I'm thinking of arranging a Howl in the UK.

Uh-huh... no disagreement there. I remember asking and being told that it was unlikely..

This has a number of problems however...

For starters is the lack of European Weres! So I think this should be open to all of AHWW members, not just the true weres. Which may make it more of a AHWW meet rather than a Howl.

I don't think that would be too much of a problem. I would imagine that most people who read AHWW know what a Howl basically is, and I think I would be surprised if they didn't join in regardless :)

Another is location. There are no places that I know of that spring to mind that can be used for a proper Howl. We'll have to make sure the location is one we all can reach.

This is gonna be the toughest one.... You could say London, because it's easiest to get to in the way of transportation (rail, road, etc), but then where in London is really suitable for a load of people who's intent is to make lots of noise?

Heh heh... I just had a weird thought... What if we had this howl on a moor? Hope for lots of ground mist - what an atmosphere *grin*

Seriously though, I'd imagine London itself to be impossible to hold a howl (meet, yes: howl, no), but if we went further afield, transport becomes a problem.

Out of the UK? That's a much bigger problem, and I think a lot of UK people would think twice about going. However, same goes for Euro people coming to the UK.

Any of us at Uni will be in exams soon,

Define 'soon' *gulp!* - I got finals in late May, early June :(

--- Farthing W. Fox

Megadog's Reply:

Another is location. There are no places that I know of that spring to mind that can be used for a proper Howl. We'll have to make sure the location is one we all can reach.

This is gonna be the toughest one.... You could say London, because it's easiest to get to in the way of transportation (rail, road, etc), but then where in London is really suitable for a load of people who's intent is to make lots of noise?

Though it's not that far from me, IMHO London is about the *worst* place to imagine holding a Howl.

Heh heh... I just had a weird thought... What if we had this howl on a moor? Hope for lots of ground mist - what an atmosphere *grin*

And forests... and streams... and hills... and lots of open spaces where we can light seriously large fires!

Seriously though, I'd imagine London itself to be impossible to hold a howl (meet, yes: howl, no), but if we went further afield, transport becomes a problem.

Don't even *think* of holding a proper howl in London, not unless you can book the whole of Regents' Park for the weekend... [Hmmm.. perhaps we *could* do this... and liberate the wolves from the zoo for the weekend too?]

Any of us at Uni will be in exams soon,

Define 'soon' *gulp!* - I got finals in late May, early June :(

Been there... done that... [ugh].

Of course trying to schedule a post-finals Howl is likely to be problematic; the peak holiday-season, all the campsites will be booked solid. Let's face it, if *you* were a campsite owner, how would you feel about renting a pitch to an assortment of weird people who claimed to be werewolves and wanted to hold a three-day party/orgy/pyromaniac's convention?