Silver is my favourite metal. If it is a choice between something shiny and yellow and shiny and silver, silver has got me.

This is when you begin to see correlations with that other words on my meanings list. Silver links to moon, and its silvered light, then to star and twinkle and solace and peace and serenity and snow and so on and so forth.

Silver is connected, if not the main reason why I like many other words or use certain combinations when I write.

I wear silver exclusively, with inclinations towards white gold (which is very pretty) with pearls and sapphires, when I wear jewellery at all.

I'm not sure why I like it exactly. To me it looks cleaner, more elegant than gold. Also my mother can not wear gold at all, so I have grown up with just silver around me. The true reason, I guess, is my grandmother's fault. When I was very little her friend was in a silversmithing class. My grandmother was a lapidarian and they met that way. Anyhoo, I was given a small, solid silver braclet - which I promptly lost. Fast forward to when I'm 8 and we are moving house and we find this braclet crammed between the bed and the wall. We put it on and it's been on my arm ever since.

Can't come off actually, which has made airport staff suspicious and miffed in turns.

In the end, I just love silver *shrug* and thats how it is.