I looked out of my bedroom window this morning and saw in amazement the 50p sized yellow dandilion heads all over my lawn. I have been ignoring the poppy stems and dandilion leaves sprouting on my driveway and in the cracks of the paving stones up to my front door for some time. I blame the blasted glorious weather we've been experiencing. I know I'm going to get into trouble when my parents come to visit and see that I've not been maintaining the house. My dad's got a point when he mutters that the roots will grow into the brickwork of the house and weaken the structure...but let's forget about that for now, it's not the reason for my post!

The reason is, I've always wondered...who decides what flower is a weed and what flower deserves the marked up prices in leafy florists on the High Street? It's pretty unfortunate for the pink-tipped daisy to be labelled an enemy of the green-thumbed and I suppose the translucent-petaled poppy was in the wrong place at the wrong time when they were outcasted from the greenhouse. I feel that it is my duty and my pleasure to stand up for the under-represented forna of the world. After all, it starts with flowers and who knows, next it might be people.

But wait, that's happened already. You see time and time again, sex discrimination stories around the work place, race discrimination on the streets, age discrimination, size discrimination...it goes on. Why does this happen? Surely anyone can see that we're all the same. We have brains, hearts, lungs...all the essential parts of our bodies are the same. And we all share the same emotions of pain, fear, joy. Is it to do with being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Did the white alpha male win the race and earn his superiority over the size 14 aging black woman?

I don't understand why people get treated differently. It's all psychological. With all the technology and medical knowledge around us, we know that there is nothing in one group of people that makes them better than another. I just hope that other people all realise that soon too and stop the senseless hostility.

I can't wait for the daisies to come up. I want to make daisy chains!