getting inspired

At the Scottish Potters Association AGM and weekend away...three demonstrators,good rest,good food and company and inspiration.

The view from the lounge...and potters discussing!
 I stayed mainly watching Katharina Klug throwing, turning and altering work.

 My work in the members exhibition

 display of items bought and received in a trip to Japan by some members

 A plate bought from a shop by the Hamada Shoji museum

 the way pots are packaged for sale in Japan

 and a sunset to arrive home.

I bought some new tools, and two tubs of kiln mending cement.......

weekend away

We were awarded some certificates from British Cycling last weekend,for our achievements in the World Masters Games last April in New Zealand.

You only get this if you go to collect them....but you do get a free dinner ticket!!

It was testing weather to drive to and from Birmingham, spray, sleet showers..and the 100% prats driving at 80 mph without lights.....

Still,we had a good weekend away and stayed with friends on the way home.

 Monday morning we awoke to snow by the Solway Firth!

 A careful drive saw us to clear roads in Castle Douglas, where our usual coffee stop cafe was open..but the gallery and secondhand bookshop opposite this mural were closed.

 Next stop Carsphairn...

and then another twenty miles home past snowy fields.

quiet weekend

Our friends where we stay have bought a campervan, so they are away for their first stay away.
We have our last weekend here, looking after house and dog.
Easter is a time of contrasts. Everything is closed, even the small shops, on Friday and Sunday. Apart from that, the Easter sales are on and the Warehouse shop is heaving, the main street busy as if everything will be closed down for a week!
We have collected the hire car that I'll be driving for the next two weeks. I'm getting used to driving an automatic again..and now even the most basic car has all these extra 'bells and whistles' !!
Out for a drive today to catch up with more friends in person instead of online. It will be interesting to see a small town, to where they are in process of moving, on foot instead of passing through on the Intercity bus!