I was surprised to learn that the colour pink was considered a masculine shade in English society a century or more ago.

When my husband said last week that a severe geomagnetic storm was heading our way promising the very real possibility of seeing the auroras, I was sceptical. We've been down this road before - quite literally.

The other day, I picked up a paint swatch chart by Farrow & Ball. My youngest daughter said that we'd been living in our house for nearly three years now and nothing had changed in its interior decor. She's right by the way. Interior design is not my strong point.

The sweater took me the summer holidays to knit. I finished it in time for the start of term. At fifteen-years-old, my knitting expertise consisted of a couple of scarves and possibly a bobble hat.

Write a story about the colour blue. How do you experience the colour blue? How might one of characters?

Write about the colour yellow or incorporate yellow into a story or simply write from the picture above.