BLUE saw U - Take 4

‘I have a blue house with a blue window, blue is the color of all that I wear, blue are the streets and all the trees are too, I have a girlfriend and she is so blue’ Eiffel 65, Blue (Da Ba Dee)

Obviously this isn’t true. I don’t have a girlfriend because I am a bag, I don’t live in a blue house with a blue window, the streets are not blue and neither are the trees. However, Blue the blue bag is indeed blue and wears this colour with pride. As, it seems, does the latest compatriot to take to the streets; I saw this friend waiting at a bus stop in Norwich: clearly a hot bed of stylish individuals keen to express their solidarity to the blue cause.

Back in Norfolk, I am once again freelancing in an editorial capacity, a major step up from carrying lunches it has to be said. I get a daily wage and no doubt will soon have to negotiate my way around a tax return, hopefully I won’t have to include my title as neither Ms or Mr will suffice. Notice that I use the title Ms over Mrs, since this is the PC term these days, no longer singularly associated with divorcees who, quite rightly, don’t want to become a Miss again. The UK should take inspiration from France, who just this February began the process of fading out Mademoiselle in favour of Madame. Why should females be categorised by their marital status? I have never been referred to as a young bag or "bagette" simply because I am independent! This may be because a baguette is an elongated loaf of bread commonly used in France; this is despite the annoying tendency of the crust to spill out fillings. But this is beside the point.

Essentially I am against titles altogether, but in this modern age of unisex names, I am sure it is a useful method for humans to distinguish between each other, especially when one is not physically present. To me, one bag has just as much right to be called a bag as the next; that is providing they have handles! Don’t even get me started on clutches; they are to the bag world, what Gillettes are to the coat world. Pointless and ineffectual! Even if they are blue!