Ill fated moneyboxes

Well I went to work and set about making moneyboxes as planned. Much of what I do is heavily influenced by the West Country slipware tradition of country pottery and amongst other shapes, I decided to make a couple of haystacks - an interpretation of those made in Fremington Pottery during the nineteenth century.




This one had toughened sufficiently to work on so I modelled on the cockerel. I decided to bring the others home to work on. I carefully loaded them, on a board, into the car, then drove home slowly along the lanes. I hadn't reckoned on a crazy drunken driver coming round the corner too fast on the way back from a local 50th birthday party. I had to brake really hard and the moneyboxes flew off the board, and were given a considerable modification in the process.



I took them into the garden for this photo, so that I could share their tale of woe with you. As you can see, Sprat, the stupidest of our cats(and one of them is only two weeks old), found them very interesting...............



and that...............



was the end of that.