Green is the Colour!

If my four year old is offered anything, a sticker from the Speech and Language therapist, an ice lolly from the van or a felt tip for colouring, I pretty much know which one it’s going to be.

The first and most important deciding factor for him like a lot of other four year olds is colour. He will always choose green.....it started as a Ben 10 thing and now it’s just grown, it’s anything and everything if it can be green he’ll choose it – (this of course does not work for green beans, sprouts or mange tout no matter how many times you call them, ’Ben 10, power green beans ’or ’Ben 10, power sprouts’ or ’Ben 10, power mage tout’)

I suppose I have somewhat inadvertently encouraged this, I bought him Ben 10 toothpaste, lovely bright green stuff - of course we had to throw it away when we realised it turned him into a hyper maniacal wall climbing screaming crazy kid.....just before bed time every night  - it seems he has a sensitivity to a range of ‘e’ numbers including tartrezean and other azo-dyes that make green really really green!

We bought him a limited edition green micro scooter, partly because he loves green but partly because the red and blue ones are everywhere and I had visions of the then inflexible three year old scrapping every kid in the park thinking they had his scooter.......

When I was at school green was the colour of snot and bogies. I know this because I was in the green house at junior school, and we were called the snots or the bogies by the other teams needless to say we never ever won anything. To make matters worse, the green team which was named after a river (Calder, blue, Ribble, red and Wyre, yellow) was named Lune.

So we were the snotty coloured loonies, it was embarrassing and put me off green for a long, long time.

Green now encompasses ideas and philosophies that no one even thought of during the A team watching, roller skating, heart beats like a drum (boom, boom –boom, boom) 80’s days of my youth.

Everyone wants to be green. How could you not, especially if you are a parent it’d be immoral not to wouldn’t it? ......the world is precious surely, worth buying bio-degradable nappies, re-cycling all that coloured plastic, putting your kids in hand me down pants?

Even David Cameron and his blue rinse set re-branded the flaming torch for a green tree – really Dave? Nature? Bio? Organic? The party that cares?

Well, I suppose green is the colour of dirty money......

For me red for politics, blue for football and green, green, green for my boys!

(But can I persuade my fella we are not too old to try again for a little pink?)