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Doug’s DIARY

O urseventh Online Exhibition went live just over a week ago, but of course, it wasn’t straightforward, these things never are!

In the days running up to the arrival of Shannon Tofts, our photographer, we found a last burst of energy to get the final pots finished up. They came out of the kiln looking lovely, and I was so pleased. It wasn’t until we got them under the brighter lights of the workshop that we noticed that every single piece out of our smallest kiln had begun to shiver on its rim. It’s a real kick in the teeth when it happens, and sometimes it seems to be for no discernible reason, which makes it hard to resolve. However, the ones from the medium-sized kiln were fine, so it was clearly down to a kiln

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