@Butrflynet,
Your mum never ever seemed to exhibit chickenshit behavior, BFN.
Perhaps you'd like to give us some examples of where the past perfect passive voice would be both appropriate and inappropriate.
Quote:Welcome back JTT. It is so nice to have your cheerful posts around here again. Been on vacation?
In your second sentence, don't you want to, following your source's oh so sound advice on the passive, move "your cheerful posts" to the front to make it "more active"?