I was walking along the street the other day and, all of a sudden, I realised what it was that had been missing from my life all these years. Brightly coloured felt-tip pens. All the pens I owned (and there were but three or four of them) were fairly drab. Browns and dull greens, certainly not the most inspiring of colours. So I went out and bought some proper pens. Rainbow colours. Colours which inspired joy. From that day onwards, my life was, quite frankly, brilliant