Pink!

It's a very divisive colour.

Literally so, sometimes when boys are given/labelled blue and girls pink (do they still do that in hospitals?). Let's reclaim it for the guys. (Not just the gay guys.)

There's all sorts of pink - personally I prefer "shocking pink" ("hot pink" in America). It's bold, it's in your face, it says Hey! and it can say What's your problem? But we can wear pale pink with a gentler, more reflective mood, and we can match pink with others - pink and white stripes are good.

What is pink's claim to fame? In Chambers' Dictionary it has eight separate entries. Beat that. It's a ship, a flower, a stab, a lake, a minnow, the sound of a chaffinch, an adjective for small, and a verb, to decorate.

You can be "in the pink", meaning tip-top health. (Or I suppose you could be snookered behind the pink - pink is second only to black - which is less good).

Pop music - Pink Fairies, Kissing the Pink (also see Debbie Harry), Pink herself - and of course The Pink Floyd. More?

You can write your blog in it, which challenges people. Why? Why not? What are you saying? Are you just playing?

So we finish with a famous icon. Did you ever see a panther that was pink? Think! A panther that is positively pink? Well, here he is the pink panther, the rinky-pink panther, a panther that is ever so pink! Enjoy.

Next week - black?