Today a BBC television crew rolled up to film us for a news item about BrightKidz for Look East, our regional BBC news programme. Massive excitement for the children of course!! We had the perfect setting because we were outside the school and it was getting near to twilight so the children's fluorescent colours showed up really well, as they are meant to when daylight is fading.

Nowadays lots of the local children wear high-vis when they walk to and from school. Admitedly even more of them did today than usual (the power of TV!). I hope more of them will get the 'high-vis habit' and wear it regularly especially at this time of year when it gets dark so early.

I think our new fluorescent pink reflective sashes will be popular with the older girls. The boys like winding the fluorescent yellow reflective sashes around their rucksacks.

Another use for high-vis I've thought of today..... if you're in a crowd being filmed for TV and you want to be spotted just wear some high-vis. Best if it's in a colour other than fluorescent yellow otherwise you will blend in with the police and security guards. Not a good idea if you are an extra in something like Lord of the Rings as I don't think they had high-vis waistcoats in Tolkein's day.