Grit in the Gears

I am the grit in the gears, the missing bolt, I am the poker of sticks into spokes. I like to know how things work, but sometimes when I take them apart and rebuild them, I have a few pieces left over. I am a man, so I tend to leave reading the instructions until after it goes wrong. And like all men I have a comprehensive mental map of the world and never need to ask directions. I never get lost, only sometimes I'm late, or end up in the wrong place entirely. It's what we do.

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

A Puzzling Jug

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In my archive of pots from way-back, but unfinished, is this puzzle jug . Ever since potters began to play with clay, they were playing t...
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Monday, 6 April 2009

A Jug

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I think I can out-procrastinate most people. This pot, I made in about 1992?, I plan to fire it some day. Builders had started on a new hous...
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Mick Casson, "The Craft of the Potter" (BBC-1974)

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In 1976, the BBC made a series called "The Craft of the Potter", it was presented by the late Michael Casson, (1925-2003), a truly...
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Sunday, 5 April 2009

Red Iron Oxide

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Sitting on 10 micron filter cloth, water dripping out. Red iron oxide is a very useful thing to potters, and of course, to many others. ...
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Thin or Thick Sir?

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Brick Library

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Something from the brick library? Not too heavy...
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Street Furniture

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Bradford, Yorkshire.
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Saturday, 4 April 2009

On Respective Values

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My old Land Rover leaks in wet weather. How refreshing to know I'm not alone.
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