Mr Hague has long seen this as the "clear blue water" between him and Tony Blair and there is some evidence that he is more in tune with public feeling than is the prime minister.
It all made for a lilting tableau, even in her agitated state, even if she knew that beneath its present blue sheen this particular body of water was a mudhole.
So, although this week has been about building bridges, there is still clear blue water between Europe and America on a number of important issues.
This means having a nuclear deterrent, a deployable army division, a blue-water navy with two aircraft carriers, and an air force with fighters and deep-strike jets.
They're the values that so many of us were raised with, including myself. (Applause.) I told this story earlier, but my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.
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But in this one, Lyra Belacqua (played by Dakota Blue Richards) has her own posse, made up of water-dwelling Gyptians, fierce urchins, changeable spirit daemons, plus a bear, a witch and a wardrobe of skirts.
And how apt that after all the water that has fallen on the Celtic Manor this weekend, that the scoreboard is awash with blue heading into the first Monday in Ryder Cup history.
And I share this often -- as many of you know, my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.
As my eyes adjusted, I realized that this seemingly solid carpet of green was actually a large, dense grouping of water hyacinth, throbbing with electric blue and crimson dragonflies, spindly mottled spiders and monstrous ants.
Pushing back the greens a bit, I made room in the lower part of the arrangement for hits of the saturated blue of fragrant hyacinth and the lighter blue of the smaller grape hyacinth to reflect the tonal shifts in color of the sky and water in this idyllic scene.
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