So, with all of the excitement of my mini little blogging writing experiment now underway, with the correct cat out of the correct bag (and the other cat wanting desperately to get out of the other one), voting underway and votes already coming in, I can have a rest.

Actually, no, I can’t. I can get back to blogging properly again… if ‘blogging properly and I’ should be featured in the same sentence, that is.

I can get back to visiting in full once again, back to commenting, and, hopefully, back to catching up yet again. I’m always catching up… and it’s always my fault.

Anyway, moving on…

I nipped into the old lab this morning, to come up with another experiment. Not of the writing kind, but something beneficial to all of mankind. A new invention. I decided on creating a new colour.

I had all of my usual gadgets and gizmos ready and available, and my half-invisible bucket literally does store more than it looks like it can hold. (For new readers and visitors, I use my bathroom as my laboratory… I don’t know why, but I had the urge to share that with you.)

Every now and then my Inner Scientist asserts his urges, and I have to obey. And reading that back sounds a bit creepy and sinister, but it really isn’t. Really.

This morning, it was my Inner Scientist who wanted to create the new colour. And it was he who woke me at 3.30am to do it.

So there I was, stood in the middle of the bathroom – sorry laboratory – with my half a bucket in one hand, and surrounded by leaves and powders and paints and liquids and test tubes and Bunsen burner things, and an assortment of other things too numerous to mention in this paragraph. There’s no gas in the bath laboratory, so the burners wouldn’t work anyway, but they look the part. And the test tubes always look as though they have something bubbling out of them… but perhaps they need cleaning.

I filled a glass half full of water, keeping the other half full of air. I always like to think of things as half full… it’s so much better that way! My bucket appears to be one and a half times full, so that statement is just BURSTING with positivity! And bursting with positivity really helps me to feel good! Anyway, I digress.

Into the water, I placed one sprout leaf (left over from my last experiment) which represents greens, and the Earth. A coloured candle (I’ll let you guess what colour) which represents reds and Fire. A yellow plastic spoon that represents blues and Water (and before you ask, I didn’t have any blue plastic spoons, and yellow is the inverted colour of blue anyway). And the reason I didn’t fill the glass with water was because I wanted the air in the glass to represent clarity, and Air.

Have I mentioned that my Inner Scientist is a little bit ‘zany of mind’ (shall we say)? However, he says there’s a method in his madness:

1) Mix carefully the ingredients, ensuring to keep everything within the glass
2) Leave to stand for twenty minutes, to allow everything to settle
3) Preheat the oven to gas mark…

Sometimes, my Inner Scientist takes things a little too far.

At four o’clock, he decided that he didn’t have the exact equipment necessary for creating a new colour. He announced that he needed his own Large Hadron Collider, which, for one wouldn’t fit in the bathroom to start off with, and for two (if it would fit) we’d have a bit of difficulty picking one up in the early hours of a Thursday morning. He also needed a small dwarf star, which, I believe, also aren’t available at the local 24 hour supermarket.

With his creation of a new colour idea scuppered, he allowed me to go back to bed, which I did, bleary eyed, at 4.30am. At 6am the alarm was waking me for another day.

Still bleary eyed I walked back into the bathroom at 6.15… and the glass was still half full…