cold workkshop

That says 5 degrees....it is dead cold in the workshop
and this is on the inside!!
I've left the pyro on to see how cold it does get to inside the kiln in comparison with the outside temperature. I haven't been brave enough to venture out at night, yet! Still, it appears to stay considerably warmer.

The weather is set to change again this afternoon, going colder again and possibly wet.

I like cold and wet even less.

Kiln Opening

Still no lead, so no photos yet!

The kiln fired well! Only two slight seconds, one of which will do with a bit of rubbing down.
The other I blew too hard and too soon to clear piercings in a candle lamp! (so the glaze is thinner there but ok)

So here is hoping that Form will like some of them and that I can sell the rest quickly!!

Off for a spot of weeding before lunch, meeting a sports physio friend whim I see too infrequently, then on to the South Wales Potters' AGM.....I want to meet the potters, but I could do without the meeting!!
Having been on the committee of North Wales Potters for about ten years, including being treasurer for eight, and treasurer of the Aberystwyth International Potters Festival once.....
I know that organizations need organizing, BUT!!!!

Still. it is a bright, crisp, cold day so let us enjoy :-)

More snow

Since early this morning it has been snowing on the mountains, and sleeting and snowing down in the valley.

We are mainly cold and damp, but places within ten miles of here have much more.

Up on the mountain here we have over nine inches of snow on the flatter fields.

This morning at 9am I went to the feed merchants for dog food for the Mountain Man. Had I gone later I couldn't have made it there, despite it being a main road.
As it was I met him a third of the way up the Mountain road and he came down in his Landrover.

I couldn't have driven any further up!

Down here in the valley it is still sleeting, up there I know the snow is getting deeper.

I tried to work yesterday, after the sun had been on the workshop for a while-

but despite the sun, and a heater, and being dressed like Bibendum....

after four pots I decided that you really need to feel your fingertips to do this!!