Well really I want one with a UK keyboard. There's not all that much difference twixt a UK and a US, but that's actually more annoying than a
totally different layout, I find.
I'm talking to another suppiler now. It's more expensive but it looks like they really do have them in stock (probably only because they
are more expensive, of course)... and they may even ship it out to me directly rather than me having to get it to somebody in the UK who'll ship it out to me.

Fingers crossed.