I'm a happy little horse with a gentle and friendly disposition. Sometimes I feel like galloping and jumping around, but sometimes I just like to take the air and talk to my friends. Occasionally you will find me looking at the ground very carefully. I'm not looking for clover - I'm talking to a butterfly!

I'm a happy little horse with a gentle and friendly disposition. Sometimes I feel like galloping and jumping around, but sometimes I just like to take the air and talk to my friends. Occasionally you will find me looking at the ground very carefully. I'm not looking for clover - I'm talking to a butterfly!

I'm a jasper, the most common precious stone in the currency range, but not the least beautiful. Even though I do say so myself!

I'm a lustrous blue sapphire, cabochon cut. I do have a few visible inclusions, but they just give me character, don't you think?

There are many different types of onyx, but I'm the black one - cool and sophisticated. You'll often find me in men's signet rings.

No, I'm not a ruby, though I'm often mistaken for one. I'm a carnelian. Don't you think I'm handsome?

I'm a beryl, the same chemical composition as an emerald but a lovely golden yellow. An unusual gem, you don't often see me in jewellery. I wonder why not?

I'm a turquoise, and what I may lack in transparency I make up in smoothness and lustre. Please don't confuse me with a push button - I'm much prettier than that!

I'm an amethyst, one of the most valuable of the semi-precious stones. As you see, I'm transparent and richly coloured, but some of my relatives have quartzy white inclusions. It doesn't matter. Frankly we're all gorgeous, darlings!

I am a most excellent piece of jade all the way from China. As the Chinese discovered many hundreds of years ago, I am not only beautiful but useful; I can be made into vases, fans and other items, not just jewellery.

I'm an opal. In Shakespeare's time I was considered unlucky, a symbol of inconstancy, because of the way my colours change at different angles. Actually, though, I'm a friendly little gem who likes nothing better than to delight you with my subtly pretty colours.

I am malachite, a form of copper ore; it is the copper that gives me my distinctive green colour (just like Mr Spock's blood). If you like, I can go into a long technical explanation about how my beautiful bands form. Yes, I'm jewellery for geeks and very proud of it!

There's only one place in the world you'll find me, and that is Derbyshire in England (where I am quite plentiful). I'm often banded with yellow, hence my name; it comes from the French 'bleu jaune', meaning 'blue yellow'.

I'm azurite, one of the more unusual semi-precious stones. I'll even double as a planet for you, just in case you don't have enough to choose from!

I'm iolite, a beautiful dark blue gem. Don't you think I would look good alternated with sapphires in a necklace?

Most gemstones are formed by heat and pressure, but not me. I'm amber, the laid-back one of the bunch. Know what I am? Yup, fossilised pine resin. How cool is that? Sometimes I even contain perfectly preserved fossil insects. So don't believe them if they tell you that you have to go through a lot of stress to shine.

Oh, the shame of it! To be so misunderstood! Unkind words like “violent” and “destructive” send me into a tailspin! I’m really just a little column of spinning air that has broken loose from my parent clouds, because I am trying to anchor myself to the ground in PnF Land! But it is very difficult to get a purchase on this loose dust! Perhaps you could sweep out your habitat occasionally?

Sure, it’s true that I can spin faster than a black marlin can swim, an ostrich or cheeter can run, a spine tailed swift can fly, or a peregrine falcon can dive, but this doesn’t make me a bad little Pet, does it? Really? Well, if you think that you can catch me, you’ll need to be quick, because unlike the storm clouds that created me, I am an uncommon weather phenomenon…

Oh, the shame of it! To be so misunderstood! Unkind words like “violent” and “destructive” send me into a tailspin! I’m really just a little column of spinning air that has broken loose from my parent clouds, because I am trying to anchor myself to the ground in PnF Land! But it is very difficult to get a purchase on this loose dust! Perhaps you could sweep out your habitat occasionally?

Sure, it’s true that I can spin faster than a black marlin can swim, an ostrich or cheeter can run, a spine tailed swift can fly, or a peregrine falcon can dive, but this doesn’t make me a bad little Pet, does it? Really? Well, if you think that you can catch me, you’ll need to be quick, because unlike the storm clouds that created me, I am an uncommon weather phenomenon…

Oh, the shame of it! To be so misunderstood! Unkind words like “violent” and “destructive” send me into a tailspin! I’m really just a little column of spinning air that has broken loose from my parent clouds, because I am trying to anchor myself to the ground in PnF Land! But it is very difficult to get a purchase on this loose dust! Perhaps you could sweep out your habitat occasionally?

Sure, it’s true that I can spin faster than a black marlin can swim, an ostrich or cheeter can run, a spine tailed swift can fly, or a peregrine falcon can dive, but this doesn’t make me a bad little Pet, does it? Really? Well, if you think that you can catch me, you’ll need to be quick, because unlike the storm clouds that created me, I am an uncommon weather phenomenon…

I'm an elegant heart-shaped box of delicious chocolates, for when you have something special to say. There are very few who won't appreciate me.