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Why is my bath green with algae?

For the first time in too long, a paintmaker’s colour-code chart has enjoyed a perusal – though not for a reason you would cite among the more obvious.

There are those who inspect such documents with painting in mind. These people are plagued by ennui after the Duck Egg Blue in the kitchen has lost its initial capacity to generate raw excitement. It should be changed, they conclude after poring over the chart, to Pigeon Wing Grey.

I have nothing against such folk. Quite the

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