What's Brexit Mummy ...

From a very young age children, no matter which country they are born in, are gradually taught the letters of the alphabet.

They learn to recognise them and how they need to be combined to form words: from the simplest to the longest and most complicated.

The majority of the words they will learn have been in use for decades, if not centuries, and would have been recognisable to their ancestors.

However, as both society and technology develop new words are formed and come into common usage.

Brexit is one such new word: an abbreviation of the phrase British exit, which the British media and society in general have and continue to use in relation to the EU referendum held on June 23, 2016.

Now this new and seemingly innocent 6 letter word has disturbed global markets, caused currencies to fluctuate and even led to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, saying he is to stand down come October.

Such is the power of not only words, but democracy. And make no mistake, for the vast majority of the people who voted for change it is indeed democracy (mixed with unhappiness with EU bureaucrats and Westminster politicians alike) that has led them to choose Brexit ... not racism, small mindedness or a desire to stand apart from the rest of the world.

Let us just hope that when future generations grow up and learn about words they don't come to wish the British electorate had never heard of brexit.

For this week's Sunday Challenge, for which we were asked to show the alphabet.

It didn't need to be the entire alphabet, any series of interesting lettering or even words would do, so this is my take on both the challenge and recent events.

I took a wooden child's learning toy that has letters of the alphabet on one side and words on the other.

Then I laid it on its 'word' side with only the letters required to create 'BREXIT' flipped around and took a shot before manipulating the various parts of the image to bring the letters together into one line.