A Devonshire Pottery

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A long day today. Marky Mark, (infected with man-flu poor chap), came up to the workshop this evening and we did the late night's work that we regularly do on a Wednesday. There was another beautiful sunset this evening and we took Digger the Dog for a long walk along...

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Hello the World.That was a really, really lovely weekend with all of my family and in spite of my customary migraine attack(I forgot to take my pills with me too - doh), we had a really fantastic time.This is a little jug I made for my Dad.My parents have so...

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Well I've had a few very long days recently - I got home at 1 am this morning, so I'm really tired tonight, but I feel content in the knowledge that everything is pretty much finished for this firing now. There are lots of things I don't have and some...

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Hi there the World, hope your weekend was good.Thank you for your sympathies and advice about my bad back - I'm pleased to say it's fine now - I just needed to spend a bit more time lying on it I think.Saturday, Marky Mark and I made an early start...

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Hello the WorldI've been suffering a bit during the last couple of days with a bad back - I pulled it on Wednesday when I was dragging wood out of the pile. It meant that my plans to make bigger pots over the past couple of days have been a...

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Just home after another marathon day. Today's job was to cut and stack a big pile of wood that I had outside. It's been a soggy day today, but I had warm clothes on and once I'd got started, it was a pleasure to be working outside in the open....

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Just in after a very, very, long day. Here are some pictures of today's stuff.Sloppy slipBig jugsBowly, dishy, platey things How did this leafy thing get into my head? - Ah, Dorset Cereals - well it is a harvest jug so it's appropriate I suppose Something a little simpler on...

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Hi there The WorldThank you to everybody who has voted for me in the Little Blog Awards - it's been fun watching progress over the weekend. It's going well so far, just a week to go!I've been making jars and lids today - here they are before they're turned.......and here's...

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Please vote for my blog at this website and try and win me an eggcup! Many thanksCheers Paul for sending it to me....

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Evening all.Just got in after an evening of noisy rocking with three quarters of the Love Daddies - the first time in months. It was good to be doing it again, although I've forgotten how to play a lot of the songs in a relatively short time - old age...

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Worked really late tonight, so off for a bath then bed in a mo, but before I go, here are some pictures of stuff from the past couple of days.I visited Blogger Paul yesterday. He's got an amazing new workshop, (nextdoor to his current one), that he's in the process...

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I forgot to take my camera to the workshop, so no video blogging today. Hil brought it up for me when she came to collect me this evening, but I feel a bit of a burke talking to a camera as it is, so I wasn't about to start doing...

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I had a really lovely surprise today - a visit from a friend of mine from Shropshire, Mark Griffiths and his wife Sarah, who had been touring around the Westcountry and had tracked me down in my little shed.Mark is a remarkable potter. He makes beautiful saltglazed pots, you can...

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Good evening the World. Here are some pictures of stuff going on. 8lb harvest jugs awaiting decoration... some Long-tailed tits...and my very first proper video blog -I hope you find it interesting, it makes me cringe!!!...

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I went to the workshop this afternoon with Joe, the younger of my two sons. It's a most pleasant way to spend a Saturday afternoon, with good company, the woodburner lit, the kettle warm and listening to Exeter City playing football on the radio. Joey took these pictures of me.This...

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Little lambs in a field near the workshop....

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Well I've been a busy, busy boy, working late into the evenings.Today I got making my favourite thing - 8lb fat jugs. It felt good to be making fat, generous, earthy, country pots with plenty of grit in the clay. I made six, I'll make another six before the firing....

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Evening all.A brief post as it's the middle of the night and I've worked a long, long day. I'll post pictures of new things that have been happening in the workshop, later.I've listed some pots on ebay, so please forgive me if tonight's blog post is more like an advertisement....

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Tonight the curtain goes down on the pantomime for the last time and life will go back to normal. It's been good fun - a lot of hard work, but a really good giggle and I shall miss the evenings rehearsing across the road at the Methodist Chapel - not...

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Well nothing much to show today, just three five pound jugs that I made on Mr Cardew's wheel.I've still some soft reclaim clay to use, so I'm making all my tapered pots first. Bellied pots are better for a bit more 'tooth' in the clay - the texture provided with...

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It was another icy one this morning. The ice and snow have wrecked the track that leads to the Hollyford.This is the wintry sky yesterday evening. The light was most peculiar, everything had a lilac tinge to it as the sun went down. The hedgerows are fairly dormant at...

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Saturday's panto was much better, things went much more smoothly and a full-house audience, who were up for joining in the fun, got things going with a swing. A rehearsal on Wednesday night to brush up on any mistakes, then two more nights at the weekend. It's a lot of...

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Well that was a baptism of fire! I was handed a whole new section of script to read ten minutes before curtain up and if that wasn't scary enough, when the music started for our opening number, it was the wrong song, leaving us standing there like lemons. Fortunately...

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