A while ago on the forums I was linked to a Channel 4 Production titled "My Big Gypsy Wedding" - a look at the gypsy community, its challenges and its customs.

Apparently London Muslim is not happy that when the mother in law of a London bomber spoke to the media, it was about the effect on her family and not an apology to the victims.

Here is news for you - she did not blow anybody up. She has nothing to apologise for.

Be as fiery as you like but the fact is she did not kill anyone, nor is there any suggestion that she promoted such activity.

Enough is enough. We should stop forcing people to apologise for things they did not do.

Her offering an apology for the London Bombings is like me apologising for the slave trade.

Maybe you should get off you high horse.

Well, today was not the best of weathers we have had.

I got caught standing in a shop door trying to stop the hailstones killing me.

I can categorically state that I did not (consciously) provoke their rage.

And then later on, I saw a rainbow. A passerby noted how it was the brightest rainbow he had seen in years - there was a full arc.

But my phone camera is not too good in showing the bright colours - it washes such things out (like when I took a photo of some traffic lights and instead of neon red and green, they came across as closer to faded out white).

Ok, spring is here.

and I suspect most of us here have access to either a camera or a camera phone.

So happy snapping.

Lets see what people can capture.

and remember guys - no bird watching!

As always, snap and then upload to the site adding some description.

Am I the only one who notices this same pattern over and over again?

The Israeli government seems to abuse the want for peace by others.

Just a day after movement in the peace process where Arab ministers and some Palestinian leaders said they would negotiate even though the circumstances were not to their liking, Israel moves the goal posts again by authorising new apartments to be built in settlements in the West Bank.

It seems like a kind of "give us everything we want and then we will consider if your requests are worth considering", an approach that does not work as has been seen through decades of rivalry.

Yet the world watches by.