1 When you first get a bruise, it's kind of reddish as the blood appears under the skin.  Within 1 or 2 days, the hemoglobin (an iron-containing substance that carries oxygen) in the blood changes and your bruise turns bluish-purple or even blackish.
balmy-mild and pleasant; balmy days and nights; the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth; a soft breeze. mild, soft. clement - (of weather or climate) physically mild; clement weather.
Jammy - In British English slang, particularly in the north-west of England, this means lucky or more accurately flukey. It is usually applied to someone else who has just had a particular piece of outrageous or undeserved luck. Jolly - You hear people use this in all sorts of ways, but basically it means very.