>>>>>>Just a lingo point for you, Hugo: Your mother prohibited you from...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Always glad to help non-native speakers. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Always tankful of people helping me :)
>>>>
>>>>I was going to let Terry respond, but what the heck. You mean "thankful for...".
>>>>
>>>>And you thought English wasn't civilised. ;)
>>>
>>>I thought Hugo had a tankful of people giving him English advice. I'm afraid that was what I noticed and to correct that (possible typo) would have seemed like I was picking on him :-)
>>
>>Yeah. I didn't bother with the typo, just that the 'of' should be 'for'. 'To' also works, but in the context, I figured he meant 'for'.
>
>Yes, for H's benefit:
>
> thankful to people for helping me
>
> thankful for people helping me

LOL at me, the sad thing is that I even went to m-w.com to check that I was spelling thankful right, and then ate the H. As for the other issue, I should limit my replies to monosyllables...