What are delicate?  A baby squabs feather, an exquisite owl wing flapping in the wind and an elegant African violet.

What are sturdy?  A well built hotel building, a hefty SUV and a heavy shopping basket.

What are hot?  My nan’s fireplace burning wood, a 90 degree day and a used pan still cooling off.

What are cold?  A scoop of mint choc chip ice cream, a snowman’s heart and a frozen pizza coming out the freezer in Aldi.

What are loud?  My younger cousin screaming when she doesn’t get her way, a Labradoodle chasing after a squirrel and a hyena cackling in the walls of a zoo.  

What are quiet? A sound of a whisper in your friend’s ear, an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota and a bird’s feather falling off its body when it flies away from little children.

What are palatial? A huge, grand mansion that is castle-like, my trampoline and an elephant feasting on leaves.

What are petite?  A new rubber from a box, a baby robin first learning how to fly and a newborn tadpole desperate to grow into a frog.