"Catriona, that girl says black is a colour but it isn't 'cos my Mummy says it's not"

Don't you just love the things seven-year-olds (not sure of hyphemation here!) tell you during holiday club!

So, is this little girl being taught A level physics already?  Or does Mummy say that black is not a colour because it's so, well, black?

My solution, rather than to try to explain about absorption or visible spectrum was simply to say that both were 'sort of right.'  Thankfully this seemed to satisfy her and she returned to colouring her picture of Joseph being reunited with his brothers.

I typed the question "is black a colour?" into Google to see what the real experts say, and the official verdict seems to agree with me, both are 'sort of right' as it all depends which side of the 'perception/physics' fence you are on.

At least no one asked me who made God...