By Steve Dinneen There is something wonderfully absurd about the annual colour of the year awards, which attempt to dress up selling paint as a sort of sociological barometer. What shade captures the public mood right now? What hue best describes the world today? According to Dulux, that would be Wild Wonder. The paint-maker describes it as a “positive, glowing tone, inspired by the natural world.” To me it looks like a kind of dark beige – cream with a bit of grey and a hint of green thrown into the mix. Think magnolia with a hangover. So what does Wild Wonder say about these strange times? A…