Today I'm managing to race on with my latest pentagon bangle but am torn as to whether or not I like the colours.

I usually put a bit of thought into choosing colours, but this time my main criteria was: 'What 5 colours do I have enough of with me to finish this bangle?'. Ok, I did bring the colours because I liked them, so it wasn't like I was choosing from a bad lot, but do they go together? I'm not sure yet.

As I bead the bangle I turn it over in my hands and find that on one turn I like the colours and on one turn I don't. This pattern continues over the day and I begin to wonder if maybe there's just one colour I don't like?

But as I work I begin to realise that actually, sometimes when I am holding the work, out of the corner of my eye I can really see the blue section at the end, and sometimes I can't. So it finally dawns on me that what seems to be happening is that occasionally my eye spots the jarring colour change and interprets that as me not liking the colours. Like so much beadwork I know it will look so different when turned into the finished item so I'm having faith that it will all look good in the end.

When at Earnley we always have an hour in the evening, after dinner, where I show people knew projects I've been working on over the year and it's fun as I get to try out new ideas and everyone gets to have a break from geometrics! This evening we're looking at my recent Affinity Bangles and I start a new one (you can never have too many of them) in pewter and red.

Yesterday, as we drove to Earnley, we passed through the Hindhead Tunnel which forms part of the new Hindhead Bypass. I don't ever remember driving through a tunnel in a hill, maybe I have and had just blanked out the memory, but suddenly seeing the alien tunnel openings ahead of us, on what had previously been a familiar route, blew my mind. The route and scenery were all so new, pristine and green that they looked unreal. I felt I was in a toy train on a railway track about to go through a plastic tunnel. That was the only way my brain seemed to be able to make sense of the surroundings and I still can't shake the feeling. I love how rather than thinking 'Oh, the new bypass is open' my mind went 'I must have shrunk down to the size of a miniature figure and been transported into a plastic world'. It did make it seem more exciting than just a new road opening.