I was wondering that too. Most unlike him not to join in a discussion like this. He hasn't logged in for quite a while either.

A lovely set of photos. If you hadn't admitted to the sky I'd never have guessed, it looks so "right".
Nothing wrong with taking the same photo as everyone else. Sometimes there is no other option. And I bet yours are better than 99% of them anyway .

Good clean innocent fun with sheep.

No idea if it's all real or not, but it's fun to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

I saw her first commercial flight from Heathrow - we lived near there, but not under the flight path- we could see them take off and fly parallel to our road.

My youngest brother got to fly on her for his 40th birthday. My eldest brother organised a courier trip for him. two years later all I got was a bottle of champagne .

We have had a few sonic bangs here lately when the Dutch air force has been scrambled to deal with rogue aircraft.

Stefan, I'm British, but I've lived here for 25 years. Having three kids attending Dutch school was a great incentive to learn the language, though I still wasn't as quick at it as them! But I soon got to understand what their new friends wanted, and what mischief they were up to.

I'm not perfect at Dutch and have an English accent still of course, but I can have long angry conversations with the Ziggo helpline in Dutch so I can't be too bad

I speak English with my husband, unless I can't remember the English word . He's English and his Dutch is pretty grim, spoken with a broad Lancashire accent) Mostly I speak Dutch with my sons as two have Dutch partners, and one a German partner, who also speaks Dutch. Luckily if we do slip into English they can all follow the conversation and join in in Dutch.

Thanks Martin.

I thought a bit more about Mothering Sunday and looked it up - it is the fourth Sunday in lent, and is actually to celebrate the Virgin and the Mother Church. people would return to the home church, and their mothers, to celebrate it - and were said to have gone a-mothering. Hence Mothering Sunday.

It's also nine months before Christmas. Not sure if that is significant or not

Mothers Day in parts of Europe and the US dates from only 1912, and is the second Sunday in may. other countries have similar festivals on different dates..

Which? that they won't forget their honeymoon, that Fiona has great legs, or both?

Yves, my niece managed to get a degree, while she seems only to be able to write textspeak. Whenever I get an e-mail from her I have to work out what the heck she means since vowels seem no longer to feature in her spelling, never mind punctuation. I asked my brother about this and he said the school she went to took the same view as the Québec government. Seemingly the uni she went to took the same attitude. How she ever manages to write job applications is beyond me.
She has a job btw, so either they accept textspeak or she really can write properly, just chooses not to.

I suppose I should call it txtspk too!

Edit: comment added.

Originally it was the day boys and girls in service were able to go home to see their mothers. Often they wouldn't see them at all otherwise. It is in Great Britain at least officially Mothering Sunday.
I lost my mother quite young, but it didn't make Mothers day a painful day for me, at least no more painful than other days. her birthday was a far worse day to face. It still is, year and years later.
if it makes people stop and think of the mothers, especially in today's world where people have so little time for each other, then it can only be a good thing.
All the other days which have since been invented are purely commercial and I have no time for them. Here we celebrate Mothers day in May, like they do n America. That really is a day invented by the card companies, but lacking a Mothering Sunday I'll happily accept brunch from my boys, when they remember.

Martin I hope your wife enjoys her flowers, and yo enjoy photographing them.
John, I hope every one enjoys their Sunday lunch!

Coincidentally we are going to dinner with one son today, but that is to meet his new son in person, rather than seeing him in an incubator.

Ah isn't English grand. At least in Dutch you only have to worry about gender and d or t at the end of a verb .

Stefan, there are others who post here who have Dyslexia, Don in Winnipeg is one, but there are others.

As I said as long as I can understand what a poster is getting at I'll read their post. Sometimes though it is not easy due to lack of punctuation, poor grammar and bad spelling.

I'm surprised George hasn't joined in this. Where is he :