Lots of different people wear uniforms – not just the military services, but nurses, emergency services, police, commercial pilots, cabin crew, ground staff, some shop workers, posties, schoolchildren, restaurant staff, hotel workers, some construction workers, athletes… I’m sure you can think of more. You might say that standard business suits for both men and women are uniforms.

It may be as formal as a military uniform or as simple as a t-shirt with a company name and logo on it. A football strip is a uniform.

You can also say that things are uniform, meaning they’re all the same. If you buy a pack of 5mm woodscrews, you want them all to be 5mm, not some of them 3mm and some 8 mm.

So your stories, poems, or just pieces of writing sparked off by the word ‘uniform’, please and send them to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll hear them when we next meet on 6th January!