This morning during breakfast my youngest daughter and I were discussing flags on the back of a conversation about the countries competing in the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

I asked, “What are flags useful for?”, and she replied,

  • “For the Queen’s Birthday”
  • “Parades”
  • “Sticking on the moon to say it’s yours”
  • “Your planet”
I then asked what it meant if a flag was left half-way up a flag pole i.e., at half mast.
  • “Your country is half finished”
Can’t say fairer than that.

As adults we are often told to “think outside of the box”. Maybe the best way is to never build one in the first place. I’d challenge many adults to come up with that last answer.