Day out in a tin overcoat

A drizzly day all day...down to see Phil at the Gallery in Lauriston for good coffee and cheese scones with ginger jam..and good craic.

Nine miles over the hill towards the sea to Gatehouse of Fleet..

And lunch....or rather all day veggie breakfast....at the Iron Brew....a laundry with café!  It included fried eggs on a sweetcorn fritters which I'd only ever had before in NZ....with avo on the side....the Scottish touch being a Tattie scone!!

Walking back down the high street...

I thought John GG would like this one....

I used to work with a Jardine in Porthmadog pottery...and of course there is "Bodyline".....

A slightly damp one of the town hall

And NCR 7

At the Mill on the Fleet

There was also a secondhand book emporium on the top floor....talk about a sugar addict in a sweetie shop....but I resisted....

 The rain was steadily getting heavier...so no more walking...a quick shop for essentials in Castle Douglas Co-op and then steadily home.

It is good having Bro here..a helping hand with some things, helpful suggestions with others...

Research on getting my website up and running again is carrying on.

We need to find the simplest and easiest and safest way of having sales from my website...I will have to talk to other potters....

And of course....get drawing and making...pots and prints....

Cards

 https://www.etsy.com/uk/GwynnethRixon/listing/1042578752/trees-4-original-linoprinted-cards?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1627130179429

Not sure what I did there!! 

Stocktake done, some renewing started and one card listing done..I might reduce the price of some bigger prints later. 

These are what should be showing at the top- but they should also show on the Etsy link on the side bar.

And I updated my website as well...I will have to ask my brother if I did that correctly...we have it arranged that he can edit that as need be. I am very good at forgetting one last step...I must write down what that is!!

https://gwynnethrixonceramics.co.uk/news/16-restocking

Print progress

 This evening I have been trying to remember how to add to my website...then severely editing images to get them on the newspost section....it isn't much, but it took well over an hour!

Hopefully I will remember next time! The aim is to add something at least twice a week...which is also incentive to do more drawing and printing!newspost ....sigh....no, I am not moving that....enough battling with IT on a smallish touch screen for one day!!

Progress.. of sorts..

 I have started work on a new, seasonal card, and work is going well.

It has been raining most of today and not long ago there was hail in with the rain. 

Indoors jobs have been the order of the day, although Pirate did venture out to move pebbles to go between the greenhouse wall and the house and the greenhouse and nextdoor's fence. He also managed to get wet rather quickly when the rain came, but at least the job is mostly done. 

Photo tomorrow when it is hopefully dry, and daylight! It is 4.30pm and the light is fast disappearing, especially with the low cloud over us.

I have managed to not only write a news article for my website, I managed to add an image..the only problem will be next time, figuring out how I did it!

website progress

I now have the same website,same address, but hosted differently...and I need to learn all the wordpress tools to update and post in it!

I've just got brave enough to start....now to carry on....

website and workshop

I'm changing my website host and domain registration...my brother, having retired from his job as a systems analyst, is now managing websites...so I thought, keep it in the family!

Cue much stress...it would be easier if he were a little nearer, and if the companies concerned actually had a phone contact.....many support tickets later, we are getting there slowly.

Many thanks to Brother and Son in Law.....

Incentive to update what goes on the website. 

Meanwhile the Pirate is grabbing the sunshine and sporadic lack of rain to work towards erecting his workshop. (Then mine follows)
He has found that the soil here is definitely clay, one reason for our lack of drainage. That explains why many gardeners in the village use containers/raised beds!

Earth Hour, and more progress

Earth Hour is serious....as we are using the resources in twelve months that Mother Earth can renew in eighteen months.

However it can also be fun!!


The Pirate now has his treatment schedule.   One appointment on Wednesday to plant gold seeds for internal triangulation markers.  Then in a fortnight a CT scan and small external triangulation markers.
After that he will be "zapped" for 15 minutes each day, five days a week from  May 5 to June 25.     No more cancer, hopefully, but continuing hormone therapy, with its side  effects.   Just look on Wikipedia.   He has them all, with a vengeance, apart from nausea, thankfully.  Roll on Autumn 2016 and then the slow return to "normality"...hopefully.  Luckily we have a doctor friend who is the same age and just over two years ahead of The Pirate in treatment.  He gives us hope and inspiration.

Some of you may have noticed that my website had disappeared....its back, thankfully.  A spur to get on and update!!