I enjoyed the process of making the play dough but inadvertently left out the vegetable oil. This made my dough very sticky, with the result that I had to keep adding flour whilst creating. I did not enjoy the tactile feeling of the dough sticking to my hands. I have been feeling the uncertainty of a third wave of Covid quite a lot this week, it also appeared in my visual diary image. This jellyfish was at first, an octopus. The round shape of the head made me think of the structure of the coronavirus. I started deconstructing the octopus by removing the dough from the inside of the “head” and taking off the “arms”. I then removed half the dough from each appendage and rolled them thinner. The act of rolling out the tentacles was extremely soothing, as was the removal of the dough from the head. It was as if I was revelling in reducing the power that this virus has over my life and emotions. The process enabled me to reflect on the idea that, just as the jellyfish doesn’t intentionally go out of it’s way to sting you, so it is with this virus that is programmed to replicate. It does not deliberately choose who it’s host will be. This reflection also had a calming effect on my feelings of uncertainty. Interestingly enough, at the end of the session, I peeled all of the bits of dry dough off my hands and emptied them into the middle of the jellyfish. It was as if I wanted it to have all the ugly bits I had discarded. It would never