Not from here, where flanking the house you can just about see the two cherry trees in bloom:
but a few minutes earlier it looked like this from the garden:
Everyone in Norway has their flags up today:
Except us. We couldn’t decide which flag to fly, so we removed the pole that came with the house. Anyway, today’s VE Day, 8 May, the anniversary of the end of the European part of WW2. Only churches fly flags in England. If a private house had a flagpole and flew the Union Jack today it would seem a bit peculiar. If you waved the St. George’s cross, the red-and-white English flag, people would just think you were a right-wing extremist. I’ve tried to design my own flag, but it’s not as easy as you’d think; every shape and colour already symbolises something that I’d just as soon not have on my flag.