tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67097863916715787152024-03-14T18:50:01.403+00:00A Devonshire PotteryTales of the goings on at Hollyford Pottery, near the tiny village of Stockleigh English in Devon, Englanddoug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.comBlogger831125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-78865544128523439732017-02-13T23:57:00.001+00:002017-02-13T23:57:14.560+00:00Happy birthday Pippin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy birthday to our beautiful little daughter Pippin, we love her beyond words </div>
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Thank you for all the lovely comments on my last post, I was surprised that anybody is still out there reading this blog, I'd neglected it so badly.</div>
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This is our temporary workshop, an old, rather dilapidated caravan in the garden of our house. This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago, there's no snow at the moment thankfully. We're using this as a place to work while we await baby's arrival, so that we don't have to drive to our usual workshop, fifteen miles away. That said, we have to go there tomorrow to glaze a batch of pots and pack the electric kiln .</div>
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I've been making piggy banks for The New Craftsman Gallery in Mayfair. I don't enjoy making them really, but they sell very well and just at the moment we need to think about feeding an extra little mouth, so if they sell, I'll keep making them. I can't wait to get on to making some proper pots again.</div>
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Hannah has managed to keep making a little bit, but the baby is due in six days and now she's beginning to feel very tired. She has a big order that is to be sent to Japan in May, so she's trying to get as much of it done as possible before baby comes.</div>
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I have been rather distracted from potting by trying to get the house sorted out. This is a picture of the kitchen just before we bought the house. I've been rebuilding it over the past few days.</div>
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I'm revamping all the old cabinets and making new doors. The worktop is slate. A lick of paint to all the wooden paneling has made a huge difference and most importantly of all, shows the pots off a treat!</div>
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So, in the forthcoming days, week or two weeks, we two will become three. It's surreal and exciting. I can't wait to meet our new little son or daughter. I wonder who it is, what it looks like? I'll keep you posted</div>
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Well it's nearly nine months since last I blogged, some of you may wonder what happened.<br />
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I didn't blog about our magical wedding day. Life just took over. It was amazing beyond words, full of magic and bursting with love and happiness.<br />
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So all these months later, here are some pictures.<br />
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Hannah and her Dad, leaving by the front door, on the way to the church<br />
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And here are Hannah's Mum and Dad and sister and bridesmaid, Sarah. I'm so happy to be a part of this lovely family. It feels like they have always been my family.<br />
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My beautiful bride. She looked gorgeous. It brings tears to my eyes to see these pictures again.<br />
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The vows. We were married by our friend Bob. He recently retired as Canon of Westminster Abbey. The little Kirk in this remote Scottish village must have provided something of a contrast to the scale and bustle of Westminster Abbey.<br />
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This is straight after the service. We look so happy. We still are so happy.<br />
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These are the jugs that we made for the church, filled with flowers and greenery by our friends.<br />
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Hannah's necklace, made by our jeweler friend Natalie Vardey. These are seventeenth century slipware sherds, set in silver. Natalie also made our rings and completely restyled and rebuilt the dress that Hannah had bought from a charity shop in Edinburgh.<br />
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We didn't want a lavish wedding, we couldn't afford one, but we didn't want one anyway. We wanted a day surrounded by all of our most special friends. It was just how we'd dreamed it might be, but better. Our friends just made it quite amazing. They traveled from all over, even all the way from the States, it made us feel quite overwhelmed that people would travel so far to share our special day.<br />
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After the service we were piped through the village in the rain, from the church to the village hall for the reception. Our Cub Group formed our guard of honour. The rain didn't matter at all, in fact it gave me the opportunity to shelter my beautiful wife safely from the elements with a brolly, which in my opinion, adds atmosphere to the picture!</div>
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Everybody brought food, so we had the most wonderful banquet. Our friends Amanda, Helen and Elinor had decorated the hall, it took our breath away when we arrived.<br />
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This jug was made by Hannah and decorated by me. We sold it on ebay afterwards to help pay for a few special days away on honeymoon.<br />
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It was a bittersweet day for my Mum. My poor Dad was too poorly to come, so although she was happy to see us wed, she missed him, as we all did.<br />
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This picture was taken a few days later in my Dad's care home. We took a few days honeymoon nearby so that we could visit him in our wedding clothes. As you can imagine, it turned a few heads in the care home and brought a lot of smiles from the residents. I'm so glad we got this photograph.<br />
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Sorry, this post jumps about a bit in chronology. Here we are at the front of the church having just signed the register.<br />
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Behind us are the Castle Douglas Feral Choir, who filled the church with the most beautiful music, all unaccompanied. They sang Hannah down the aisle with a specially composed piece written by the choir leader Ali Burns and they sang us back out again. Cookie, the singer from my old band The Love Daddies, recited a special poem, which had been one of our songs and our friend Hazel did a reading.<br />
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My boys were our witnesses which was really special. Here they are with their girlfriends at the reception.<br />
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This is my Best Man Frank, who did a sterling job. I don't get the chance to see so much of him as we're in Scotland a lot at the moment and he lives in Cornwall, so I miss him.<br />
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There are so many great pictures I could put on here, but it seems Blogger won't allow any more on this post. It's wonderful looking at them again.<br />
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The following video is our friend Gwen's band, The Misdemeanors performing at our reception. They put a poem that I wrote for Hannah(you can find it on an earlier post), to music and performed it as a lovely surprise.<br />
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It seems like such a long time ago now. So much has changed.<br />
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Since then we have bought a fantastic house.<br />
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And most exciting of all, in two weeks time(or possibly before/after), we are expecting this little wiggler to enter our lives.<br />
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-41007869168543936702015-05-01T00:48:00.005+01:002015-05-01T00:57:27.111+01:00It's Wedding time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well it's nearly upon us! It seemed like our wedding day wasn't for ages and before we knew it, it's suddenly a day away<br />
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We've been working so hard, trying to get everything finished so that we can take a few days off. On top of an already heavy workload, we decided we would make all the champagne flutes.</div>
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We've decorated them simply, using our potter's stamps side by side on the front and a heart on the back. These are the stamps. The flutes will be a little keepsake for folks to take home if they'd like to.</div>
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The day before yesterday our first guests arrived all the way from America. Hollis and Kimberly who we met when we travelled to Cape Cod a few years ago to do a workshop demo. It was lovely to see them. We are so touched that folks would travel so far to share our special day.</div>
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Yesterday we finally finished making, although today we still had to go to work to tidy up and to get the last of the champagne flutes glazed and in the kiln. They'll be out of the kiln, hot on Saturday morning! This picture shows Hannah decorating the last pot I made as an unmarried man, it's also the last pot Hannah decorated as an unmarried woman. We'll keep that one.</div>
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This is the jug from my last post, all finished, with a little sidekick that I've made for Hannah.</div>
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We stood in the garden tonight and watched the sunset.</div>
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Away on the distant Galloway hills there is still snow. This place is beautiful.</div>
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This is my Best Man Andrew, better known to many as Frank. He arrived this afternoon with his family. It's lovely to see them here, if not a little surreal.<br />
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Tomorrow my Mum and brother and neice arrive and my boys with their girlfriends and lots of other friends and family. Sadly my dear Dad is too poorly to make the journey, so my sister has stayed home to see that he has everything that he needs. He'll be very much missed, but will be in my thoughts.<br />
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We have a rehearsal at 4pm in the church tomorrow evening, then a meal in the local pub, before Hannah and I say goodnight and she heads home with her Mum and Dad. The next time I will see her will be as she walks down the aisle, to become my wife. She will be beautiful, she is beautiful, I love her so much, my life is amazing with this woman in it, I'm the luckiest man in the world.</div>
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-37258547318446135682015-04-18T07:18:00.000+01:002015-04-18T07:20:12.867+01:00The Love jug<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Before Hannah and I got together we had been best friends for years. <br />
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We'd been to the States together to do demonstrations, made numerous pots together in each others workshops, fired wood kilns together, looked out for each other, looked after each other, talked to each other about slips and glazes and brown pots and Issac Button and medieval jugs in the V&A in wonderful phonecalls that would last for hours.<br />
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A couple of years ago, I came to Scotland to visit her. She had made a big jug which was sitting there still wet on the shelf. When I looked at it I could see the culmination of influences from the tradition that we celebrate, but more than that, I could see a synthesis of the two of us. <br />
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It's difficult to explain and I don't know if this will make sense, but upon seeing that pot, it struck me that we had grown together so much in our work because we had grown together so much in our lives. <br />
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We are obsessed and focussed potters, we live for our art, it is all of us. This jug was both of us, a shared perception. It seemed so clear to me that there was no way that we couldn't be together. So I told her!<br />
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I told her that one day this pot would be on the top table at our wedding.<br />
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She didn't believe me, (or was actually completely freaked out!) and sent me home to Devon. <br />
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I knew full well that we were in each others heads and hearts and that we had become a massive part of one another's conscience. We made our pots for each other, (it was like flirting with clay!). I knew I was in love with her and I also knew that she was with me. <br />
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We didn't speak for a few days - that hadn't happened in years, but the silence and the distance were so important - this was what life would be like without each other.<br />
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I sat in my workshop and thought about that pot and wrote a poem. I've never written a poem for anyone before and it's no great literary work, but I saw that jug as an analogy for us and it represented in my eyes, our at oneness. <br />
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I wrote it out in my best handrwriting and posted it to her.<br />
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We spoke on the phone, we laughed, we cried, I told her I loved her, then I asked her to marry me. A very shocked Hannah asked for some time to get her head around it.<br />
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I asked her to keep the jug for me and again promised that one day I would decorate it for our wedding.<br />
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Two weeks tomorrow we will be married. The jug, with its love poem will be on our top table and Hannah will be beside me as my wife. I love her completely. Great poetry it isn't, but it says it all.<br />
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Our wholeness, our consciousness<br />
Proclaimed within a brown clay jug<br />
Our Earth, our clay, our harmony<br />
As integral as marl and grog<br />
Our slip, our glaze, our synthesis<br />
Layered, shining bright and bold<br />
Our kiln, our fire, our burning light<br />
Our tale of Love set in stone..<br />
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Hello folks<br />
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With just a little over two weeks to go until our wedding, things are as busy as ever in the workshop. We've a lot to do if we're going to be able to take any time off and we're determined that we'll get a few days away on honeymoon, so we're putting in the hours at the moment.<br />
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Hannah has been remaking the orders that she lost during our glaze troubles. She's an extraordinary production thrower and has almost completed the making, now she has several miles of sliptrailing to do to finish these pieces.<br />
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We worked late last night. The racks are almost full.<br />
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I've been making more of these candle holders, larger than the last ones I made. I've also been scratching away at another sgrafitto jug for our wedding, but that's a pot with a story, so I'll save it for another post.<br />
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There are bisc fired pots piled everywhere.<br />
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We had hoped to fire the wood kiln next week, but we're postponing the firing until after the wedding.<br />
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It's glorious weather, so we'll be drying pots in the sunshine again today. <br />
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We're away to London on Saturday to visit <a href="http://www.ceramics.org.uk/index.php" target="_blank">Ceramic Art London</a>.<br />
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Back later, happy Friday all</div>
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-28236669897917875602015-04-10T23:08:00.001+01:002015-04-10T23:08:55.880+01:00wedding jug number 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We're settling back in to work in our Scotland workshop. It's been glorious weather, hence the pots drying in the sunshine. These pots are the order that I've made three times, the last two batches failed due to a glaze flaw, which we think we may well have resolved, so we have our fingers crossed.<br />
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Today I finished scratching this jug which will be used in the church for flowers on our wedding day.<br />
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Hannah made the jug and I decorated it.<br />
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There are only three weeks to go until our big day<br />
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All very exciting!</div>
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We've come to the end of our stay in Devon for a little while. We head to Bedford for the weekend to see my Mum, then on from there, to Scotland to make pots, fire the wood kiln and of course, in four weeks time, to get married! It seems strange to think that next time we're here we'll be husband and wife.<br />
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During the past few days I've been working on this wassail pot. The last one I made cracked, which was very frustrating, as it took ages. This is a replacement and will go in the wood firing in Scotland in a couple of weeks.</div>
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It's inscribed with an old English wassail poem,<br />
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'Health to thee good apple tree<br />
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It was a nightmare to slip, each of the birds has to be really well fixed on<br />
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It's survived the bisc firing and is all packed up in the van, ready to head North in the morning - lots of bubble wrap required on this pot.</div>
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This is a jug that Hannah made. I'm decorating it to go with the big jug in my previous post, to hold flowers in the church on our wedding day. We're hoping to make a collaborative pot for each of the window sills.</div>
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They take an awfully long time to decorate, there's still a lot to do to this pot before it's finished.<br />
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It carries both our signatures, as you would expect, Hannah's is rather neater than mine!<br />
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We're still having problems with our glazes. As you can see in this photo, it keeps 'shivering' off the rims and handles. We've tried all sorts, changed the glaze recipe, changed the firing temperature and lots more, but still we're losing lots of pots. It's frustrating and financially crippling. Fortunately the technical man at Scarva is working on it and thinks he can make our glaze 'fit'. <br />
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I had to work late in to the night last night to yet again re-make this order of two handled loving cups. It's the third time I've made the order - at least they get better each time, practice makes perfect and all that, but I really hope that these ones come out successfully.</div>
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-27502600395793523052015-03-30T01:02:00.004+01:002015-03-30T01:08:35.968+01:00Wedding Day potsHere are some pictures of my amazing wife-to-be, decorating a big jug that I made. <br />
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We're going to make a few collaborative pots together and they'll be used for the flowers in the church on our wedding day.<br />
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There's a little film at the end too.<br />
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Well it's been a tough few weeks. We seem to be dogged by bad luck at the moment.<br />
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First of all Hannah was poorly, then the glaze started flaking off the rims of pots and Hannah lost several weeks worth of work, then the kiln in Scotland broke down, then the kiln in Devon malfunctioned and we lost a £600 order, meanwhile, the glaze problem continues.<br />
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But, all we can do is keep on making and be thankful that we have each other. And I really am very thankful, when things are tough it would be so easy to just give up, but we look after each other and giving up just isn't an option that we would consider.<br />
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I remade the lost order, a batch of loving cup style, one pint tankards. Hannah has subsequently decorated them with sgrafitto text.<br />
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This large baluster will have a white slip and fingerwipe decoration tomorrow.<br />
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A freshly slipped 7lb jug<br />
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with a simple, single sprig<br />
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This is green slip. I really like the green ones, I could be tempted to slip everything green.<br />
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This big jug had such a lovely texture that I just dipped the neck, like the old traditional North Devon jugs. I will leave it with a naked clay body, to be flashed and toasted by the flame of the wood kiln.<br />
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Time for sleep and with the clocks changing tonight, there's going to be an hour less of it! Goodnight all<br />
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I made some tall baluster jugs this morning. We've had it toasty in the workshop today with the burner cranked up, so they were dry enough to handle tonight.</div>
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Here they are with some of their juggy buddies<br />
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And here are the handles.<br />
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I always think pots look like people, particularly baluster jugs. This lot look a bit like an identity parade! <br />
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We got back from Cornwall last night after doing a demo to the <a class="profileLink" data-gt="{"entity_id":"192659277457412","entity_path":"\/pagelet\/pageletserver.php:PagePostsPagelet"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=192659277457412" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cornwall-Ceramics-and-Glass-Group/192659277457412">Cornwall Ceramics and Glass Group</a>, thank you to them for that, we really enjoyed being there.<br />
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We're straight back in to it today. It feels like our feet haven't
touched the ground since we got back here from Scotland last week.<br />
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The workshop's filling up with freshly made pots and the kilns are
running flat out bisc firing. As well as trying to make stock for our
forthcoming shows, we're trying to catch up with a backlog of orders
that have been delayed because of the glaze issue and a poorly potter.
The glaze is sorted and I'm very happy to report that the poorly
potter is very much better now.<br />
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We'd been aiming to fire the wood kiln here this month, but we just
don't have the time. We have to dash back to Scotland soon, as we have a
wedding to plan and time is ticking down to the big day.<br />
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of firing here, we'll take the pots back with us and fire in Scotland.
Some of the pots we're making now will have to stay here until our next
visit, as we're going to run out of bisc firing capacity.<br />
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The pictures show the 7lb tapered jugs I made tonight and some of the bisc that's starting to fill up the workshop. Also a moneybox, covered in rooks<br />
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Time for a scrub in the tub and bed<br />
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Goodnight all<br />
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-84945161491764705292014-09-30T23:17:00.000+01:002014-09-30T23:17:00.668+01:00Since last I blogged.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello all<br />
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Well since last I blogged, lots has been happened, so it's time I got round to writing about it!<br />
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We left Scotland over three weeks ago and headed to Derbyshire and The Wardlow Mires Pottery and Food Festival. This event is the only one of its kind in the country, where functional pots and food are exhibited alongside each other. It's now in its third year and is growing and developing. Last year was terribly wather affected, but this year the sun shone and the people came and bought lots of pots.<br />
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I didn't take any pictures, apart from this. I was at college with these guys over thirty years ago and we were all reunited for the first time at the Festival. It was great to see them all and no doubt we shall all meet again.<br />
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So we've been back in Devon for a while. Hannah's been in London at a show too, so busy, busy as ever.<br />
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This weekend just gone, we taught a workshop at Kigbeare, near Okehampton. We've demoed together before, but it's the first time we've ever taught together, so we were nervous at first. Everything fell in to place though, helped by a lovely group of people who wanted to soak up as much knowledge as they could. The accompanying exhibition sold lots of pots, which was fantastic and sent us scurrying back to Hollyford to make replacements.<br />
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I made this jug as part of the demo and brought it home to finish it. It's another one of those pots that I've got carried away on and it's taken hours. I'll finish it tomorrow and slip it bright green. I do regret starting these sometimes as they take so long<br />
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Hannah struggled to get going today, before she made six of these lovely jugs. It's sometimes difficult working in one another's workshops, as the equipment, surroundings and very often the headspace are completely different. I often really struggle to make pots in Scotland and the only thing that one can do in that situation, is work through the failures and frustrations, until it starts to flow. We're trying to reorganise both of the workshops to make both spaces feel like they belong to both of us, but it all takes time that we don't have at the moment.<br />
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Well I'm worn out, so I'm going to sign out now, back soon. Goodnight all. <br />
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-86909126404453165482014-09-12T00:03:00.003+01:002014-09-12T00:03:48.994+01:00Wardlow Mires here we come<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We're off tomorrow to the <a href="http://www.potsandfood.co.uk/" target="_blank">Wardlow Mires Pottery and Food Festival</a> in Derbyshire, come along if you can make it.<br />
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We've been quite frantic in the workshop today, trying to get everything finished. This is a 6lb jar, drying in the sunshine.<br />
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Hannah decorating one of her little tripod jugs.<br />
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All the pots will be dry enough to pack in the bisc kiln before we leave, so they'll be ready for wood firing when we return to Scotland in a few weeks time.<br />
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We'll be in Devon now for a few weeks, doing things down south. I'll keep you posted.<br />
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We unpacked the kiln yesterday. There were a couple of duffers, but generally, it was a great firing.<br />
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We probably overpacked the front a bit - we always do, in a panic to get everything in that we can. All that happens is that the pots near where the flame enters the chamber, block the path of the flame to the pots at the back and they remain underdfired. But otherwise it really was a very successful firing.<br />
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Some of the pots are packed up ready to dispatch to London today for a photo shoot for Homes & Gardens magazine, Here's Hannah getting them ready to send. Here are a few snapshots. I'm afraid my photography skills aren't up to much.<br />
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3lb jug<br />
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One of Hannah's beautiful jugs<br />
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Richness of glaze<br />
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Thistle jug<br />
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8lb applique jug<br />
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Another lovely one of Hannah's<br />
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Birdie plate<br />
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This one's off to the photo shoot in London today<br />
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More rich glaze, mottled from the wood firing<br />
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Tankards destined for the food festival at the weekend<br />
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8lb applique jug<br />
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8lb applique jug<br />
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It was a beautiful day in Dumfries and Galloway yesterday, perfect weather to be under a huge beech tree, firing a wood kiln.<br />
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We started at 8 a.m. <br />
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And finished at after 10 p.m.<br />
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It looked, from what we can tell at this stage, pretty good. We have to wait until Tuesday to find out.<br />
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During the early stages of the firing, I was able to find the time to model the rooks on to the top of this moneybox. It was great to be able to stand beneath a tree, watching the real thing flying around in front of me. I took this picture before I cut the slot in the front.<br />
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By the time we'd clammed up the kiln, headed home and unwound with a hot bath, it was 1 a.m. and we collapsed in to bed, completely exhausted.<br />
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There's a lot hanging on this firing as it contains pots for the<a href="http://www.potsandfood.webeden.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Wardlow Mires Pots and Food Festival</a> next weekend and for our joint exhibition in Castle Douglas, next month.<br />
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Today is another beautiful day, the sun's shining and my achy body has just pushed the lawnmower round the front garden. Hannah's in the kitchen baking a courgette cake(sounds wrong, but is very right!) as her Mum and Dad are coming over shortly, it's smelling good already.<br />
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It's time to go outside now and enjoy the spectacular view with a cup of tea in the back garden.<br />
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Happy Sunday everybody.<br />
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Here's a video of our firing day, I hope you enjoy it.<br />
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-64700691993858352602014-09-06T07:19:00.001+01:002014-09-06T07:19:18.652+01:00Firing time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We packed the kiln today. We had a lot of other stuff to do, pots to finish, a trip in to town, so it was late in the day before we got properly started.<br />
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Just as we'd finished packing and bricked the door up, the sky turned an amazing array of colours and it started to rain, as you can see in the snapshots below.<br />
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Hopefully it'll be a dry day tomorrow, we're hoping to start early(ish!).<br />
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I shot a tiny bit of video, it's still uploading, so I'll wait until the morning to post this. Off to bed now to try and get some sleep before the big burn up tomorrow. Wish us luck! <br />
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Hello all. Thank you for your kind comments on my previous post.<br />
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I've been pretty tired today after my broken night, but I got some stuff done.<br />
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These are six pound jars. I want to make some ten pound ones next, but I think it'll be a while before I get back to the wheel as we're in firing mode now.<br />
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Tomorrow we pack the wood kiln in readiness the firing, which we'll start early on Saturday. Here are some of the glazed pots. We've got way too many for this kiln load, so it's a great head start for the next firing which we'll do on our return from our travels of the next month.<br />
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The countryside here is stunning at the moment, with much activity in the fields, tractors and combines whizzing along the lanes, taking full advantage of the dry weather. I want to try and get some of these green stripes on to my pots, maybe even today's jars.<br />
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This was tonight's view from the back garden.<br />
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This is an old deisel pump on the farm where the workshop is. I put this on for my chum Al, because I know he'd like it.<br />
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I can't sleep, so what better thing to do at a time like this, than write a blog post. We're working in Scotland at the moment, which is stunningly beautiful. We've been here a few weeks now, making pots for a wood firing on Saturday. It's taken me a while to settle in to the rhythm of making, it always does when we come here and I know it's the same for Hannah when we work in Devon. We've both worked on our own(with occasional visitors) for ten years and our workspaces are set up to suit the way that each of us works best. Hannah prefers for instance, to have the wheel looking out across the room, while I can only find my focus, by turning it to face the wall. I hadn't realised just how much difference this makes until I moved the wheel the day before yesterday and suddenly the pots began to flow again.<br />
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These jugs won't be ready in time for the wood firing at the weekend, they'll be for the next firing in a month or so time. This kiln load are pots for <a href="http://www.potsandfood.webeden.co.uk/">The Wardlow Mires Pottery and Food Festival</a> in Derbyshire, where we'll be exhibiting a week on Saturday. With fifty potters and lots of top quality food, it's well worth a visit if you're able to get there.<br />
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My lovely Dad is very poorly at the moment, which is one of the things that's keeping me awake at this hour of the morning. I hate being so far away from my parents.<br />
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That aside, life is very good. Hannah and I have a very special relationship and we love each other completely. She is the sweetest, kindest woman and an amazing potter and I relish every moment in her company. We have a wonderful life together. This is the view from our back garden here in Scotland. Our Devon home is beautiful too. We'll be heading there after the Food Festival for a few weeks.<br />
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I left this jug drying last time we were in Devon. It's for an exhibition in October, at a gallery called <a href="http://www.designsgallery.co.uk/">Designs </a>in Castle Douglas. It'll be our first joint exhibition in Scotland and we've been pulling out all the stops to try and make it a really good show.<br />
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While we're down South, we will be presenting a weekend slipware workshop at Kigbeare, near Okehampton. I think there are still a couple of places available, so if you fancy having some fun learning some slipware techniques with a bunch of enthusiastic people, in a beautiful setting, follow the link <a href="http://www.kigbeare.co.uk/node/71">here.</a><br />
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I suppose I should try and get some sleep. There are still a couple of hours before the alarm goes off. I'm making large lidded jars today in the workshop, I'll post some pictures later. In the meantime, here are four little films that we made in recent days here in Scotland. Bye for now<br />
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-90085968355056859662014-07-03T11:39:00.001+01:002014-07-06T10:33:54.958+01:00Stuff, Pottery Stuff<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Thank you all, it's good to know you're still there. Thank you to everybody that came to Rufford and bought our pots. I really enjoy Rufford, it's always great to catch up with potteryheads and to meet some new ones too.<br />
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For me it felt like I'd found my feet again. This time last year, everything in my life was in turmoil and I'm sure that must have been evident in my work. This year I've taken a lot less on, as I completely burned out last year with all that was happening in my life and a heavy schedule to sustain in some pretty adverse circumstances. It's a gamble taking less on, because I run the risk of not having many places to sell my work, but it just seemed sensible when application time for shows came around, to take a step back and re-evaluate what I'm doing - my work needed it. So far I've survived and the next couple of months are about to become busy.<br />
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On 13th and 14th September, we will be selling a new range of domesticwares at the <a href="http//:www.potsandfood.webeden.co.uk/">Wardlow Mires Pottery & Food Festival</a> in Derbyshire. This is the only show of its kind that I'm aware of in the UK, where the only pottery for sale is functional wares.<br />
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On September 26th/27th, Hannah and I will be delivering a masterclass weekend at <a href="http//:www.kigbeare.co.uk/node/71">Kigbeare</a>. There are still a few spaces left, so if you'd like to learn a bit more about what we do and how we do it, here's an opportunity.<br />
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There are one or two other things in the pipeline that I'll tell you about nearer the time. Hannah and I will be working long hours to fill wood kilns for these events. I hope you'll follow our progress via our <a href="http://https//www.youtube.com/user/theslipwareman">youtube channel</a> where we'll be adding little videos of the pots being made and fired.<br />
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Today we're about to jump in the van and drive to Hatfield House, to this year's <a a="" href="http//www.artinclay.co.uk/">>Art in Clay</a>, where Hannah has a stand and I shall be her tea boy.<br />
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Here's today's little film of stuff we've been up to during the last few days in Devon. Happy weekends all, if you're at the Hatfield show, please come and say hello.<br />
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These are some really exciting times, traveling backwards and forwards between Devon and Scotland with my wife to be, <a href="http://www.hannahmcandrew.co.uk/blog">Hannah</a>. We spend our lives working the long hours that it takes to scrape a living as a potter, but we love every minute of it. We're making plans for our future together, which is going to be amazing.<br />
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Tomorrow morning we'll load the van and head off on the long journey to Nottinghamshire and the <a href="http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/enjoying/artsandculture/arts/earth-and-fire/">Earth & Fire show at Rufford</a>. During the last few days we've fired the wood kiln twice, the firing that we unpacked yesterday, being the best ever. It's a lovely problem to have, that we both had too many good pots to take with us. Here are a couple of little films of the kiln being unpacked. If you can get to Rufford, pop by and say hello.<br />
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-19742469408289056152014-04-10T08:25:00.000+01:002014-04-10T08:25:10.663+01:00Catch upI've got really behind with my blog once again. In fact since my last post, we've spent time in Devon, been up to Scotland and now we're back in Devon again. <br />
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Here is a series of little films that'll show you what we've been up to. <br />
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doug Fitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413690733976558551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709786391671578715.post-53134502432081111282014-03-16T09:09:00.000+00:002014-03-16T09:09:22.789+00:00Jars and lids<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The sun's shining again in beautiful Devon and the birds are singing their little hearts out, it's that time of year. Maybe I need to practice a little song for Hannah when she comes tomorrow? Maybe not! She'd be straight on the next train home. I am so excited about seeing her and I'm looking forward to enjoying a cup of tea together in the morning sunshine. It's a simple pleasure and one of the best. I know that I probably go on about it too much, but she's very cute and I love her a lot.<br />
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I worked another long day yesterday and managed to get the jars and lids made. They'll need decorating today. The dry weather speeds things up because I can dry pots in the sun between coats of slip.<br />
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Today if I get the decorating done, I might make some bowls. I keep meaning to, but then I get distracted and end up making jugs and jars instead.<br />
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It was a late night again last night, but at the moment I'm enjoying making pots so much that long hours are good fun and really not a chore. I could have happily worked all night.<br />
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I'm counting down the days until Monday, when Hannah is coming to stay for a few days, I can't wait to see her. After that, we'll head back up to Scotland, via Nic's exhibition at the Goldmark Gallery. I love Hannah and I love sharing my life with her, every pot I make, I make for her - she's turned me soft in my old age!<br />
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Here's another talkie from yesterday. The sun is shining again and I'm off to work on some lidded jars.<br />
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Happy Saturday everybody<br />
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The sun shone yesterday and Spring came to Hollyford, which inspired me to tell the world all about it!<br />
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