maxers in the Midlands UK?..

Hi All,,
Are there any fellow maxers based in the Midlands who might be up for a bit of brain-pooling once a month or so? I've been using masmsp for a couple of years now, mostly learning on my own, with occasional posts here when I get really stuck!....
Anyone else in that position where you think 'if only I could ask that question face to face with someone,then it just might all drop into place.....' ?
I'm fairly literate with Max, slowly getting there with MSP, about to start discovering Jitter, and am also interested in developing externals in the future (see Dev for my helpless posts!).
I am based in Nottingham and carless, but would happily either travel to surrounding cities Leicester, Birmingham, Derby, Sheffield...(trains permitting!), or host here in Nottingham.
I will shortly be renovating my website, in order to outline my patches/provide examples/provoke interaction of brain cells. There's a few sounds up there at the moment, and some old max/logic pro ideas I was working on some time ago. Things will be updated in a week or so.
http://homepage.mac.com/leighhunt/home.html

hmmmm.let's see if anyone is out there then........
regards
Leigh