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My head doesn't work that way; but I am delighted that so many people see Beatrice as the colour orange! My daughter, Beatrice, has had red hair since birth. When she was about three, young enough to sit in the fold-down seat on supermarket trolleys, someone in the queue at the next cashier looked at her and said "What lovely red hair you've got", and my literal-minded child said, in clear, ringing tones, "It's owwinje, akshallee" which the whole queue understood to mean "It's orange, actually" and fell about laughing. She didn't mind - she was happy to make them happy, she told me.