The beauty of a shell

The beauty of a shell

The natural beauty of a shell. My daughter was looking at this this morning and she said thoughtfully, “Sometimes I look at shells and think they are so beautiful that they can just have appeared, they must be ‘man-made'”. To which I instinctively...
Pink is for girls, blue is for boys.

Pink is for girls, blue is for boys.

Pink is for girls, blue is for boys. You would hope that in 2013 we had progressed beyond such obvious stereotypes. But no—walk into any large toy shop and pink is still for girls and blue for boys. And colour is just the tip of the iceberg. Open a kids book and still...