I think most men where I live are red-green colour blind if their behaviour at the traffic lights here is anything to go by.

Some are unable to read numbers either, and so can't drive at the speed limit.

Often the same ones as are colour blind. Poor afflicted souls.

Interesting set again Andrew, now I can see them on the big screen, but somehow they seem a bit flat to me. Not only the conversion but also the composition. Not up to your usual high standards imho. Sorry.


As far as I recall I wasn't at Longleat but by the looks of the ladies at Heaven's Gate I could have been .

Yves, I really hope we will get to Canada. We are dreaming of a coast to coast trip over a few weeks, at some future date, making use of the trains, as well as hiring cars. My husband wants to go back to NL has he loved it there and wants to show it to me, I want to visit Nova Scotia and Quebec City, he has a cousin near Toronto he wants to visit, and of course the Rockies are a must.
Have to see how the finances pan out, and decide whether we can really leave the dogs for that long. We may do it in a couple of goes. Just a shame getting to NL is so difficult from here.
By the time we are dogless (±7 years as they are both 7 now) we'll be too poor and too old to do it I fear, though what we'd save on kennel fees could go on the trip.

Of course the big dream for me is to see polar bears, but I'll have to win the lottery for that one.

No puppy dog's tails. At least not for Yves with his Aussie .

Canada is on my list too, but it is so darned huge it would take a lifetime to see all I want to see there.

Being female I would have been very surprised to find any colour blindness from these tests, since only 0.5% of females have some form of colour blindness, compared to 8% of males.

Try this:
http://s927.photobucket.com/albums/ad116/ADC3440/Heavens%20Gate%20Sculptures/

Then click on the slide show.

I'm on the netbook so shan't comment on the photos from here

I know why they happen, but they are frustrating.


Maybe the person who sends a PM, but then removes it before it is read by the recipient, could just change it to say something along the lines of "sorry I changed my mind"?


Just so the recipient isn't left wondering who and what?

Welcome Steve!
Contrary to the impression given by a couple of people posting here we are really are a friendly, tolerant, helpful forum.
You will soon learn the quirks of some members but I hope they don't put you off.
I look forward to you future contributions.

My son was helping his in-laws clear out an old hayloft just after they bought their farm. He was the only one light enough, and dumb enough to go up there as the floor was very dodgy.
Unfortunately there were several wasps nests up there too. He came down cover in wasps. he only got stung by about 10 or so though, and luckily despite it being his second brush with a wasps nest, he isn't allergic to them. I have never seen him move so fast in my life. He ended up diving into the horse trough!


And dammit, the Dutch won, so my world cup agony continues.

Ah, but I don't have an iPod either. Nor any other MP3 player.
I prefer the sound of silence, or maybe talk radio, so it would be wasted on me.

I admit I nearly threw my husband's iPod out of the window on holiday - he can't drive anywhere without that damn thing being plugged in and at full volume.

I like to read, but English books are expensive here, and I don't like reading them in translation in Dutch. I'll read Dutch origin books in Dutch, but don't like translations of my favourite authors. It was good to be able to take a heap of books on holiday this time, without feeling guilty about the weight. I read a book a day, and left some behind, others came back though.

I'll probably get myself a Sony e-book rather than a Kindle so I am not tied to one supplier. The Sony doesn't have an internet connection, but I don't want to be tied to Amazon. It should save a few trees anyway, if I stop buying books .

(And yes I do realise there are all sorts of precious metals etc etc in an e-book which have to be dug up from somewhere and recycled at a later date.)