Blue chip

On the day: 
09/08/2012 

On the way: 
The seat molds are a plastic shade of blue you only ever see in children's playgrounds and water fun parks. 
The hard-wearing fuzzy fabric that mitigates the impact of the unforgiving synthetic on bottoms of all shapes and sizes is more complex in its colouring. Two shades of blue in a pattern that's not easy to follow, and overlaid with circular motifs made up of a corpulent orange crescent, a smudge of red taking up two thirds of the remaining space in the circle, and the prevailing blue showing through the rest. 
And on the cushioning, to the back and to the left, lies a chip. One chip. One cold, stale, potato chip, separated from the herd, vulnerable to the predators that prowl this blue wasteland. 
Did I mention that the floor is blue - a greyer blue with red and orange stipples to pick out the pattern on the seats meticulously designed by a fan of Jackson Pollock, but almost certainly not by the great man himself? No? 
Well why would I? No one would actually look that closely at the colour scheme on a bus unless a) they were concerned for the safety of an abandoned potato chip (hungry, anyone?) or b) they were listening to Coldplay. 
Init. 

On the pod: 
Fix You (live) - Coldplay 

On the front page: 
Britain 'must build on success of Olympics' (The Times)

On the subject: For a more uplifting musings on the colour of Leonardo (the turtle, not the Renaissance polymath) visit Under the Milkwood http://underthemilkwoodtree.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/50-something-shades-of-blue.html