I did indeed, leenia. Maybe it's as well I didn't start this thread before doing so, because it was only my inability to find any usable existing monologues that pushed me to do it, and the Mudcat has demonstrated that in fact there' s no shortage of excellent ones.

Yes, of course you and anyone else is more than welcome to use it. Copyright only comes into it if anybody makes money out of it, which would be nice, but I don't anticipate it happening.

Posting it here would count as asserting my copyright, but I've already sent myself an email, which will have done the trick. (Better than the old method of sending yourself a registered letter and leaving it sealed, because this way it can' t be hocussed - and of course it's free.)