Not So Distant Hills

After a very busy work day at King's Cafe, what better place to spend the evening but at pottery.  The second of the week's community sessions is always a relaxed one, plenty of time for chat.  I had recently seen a reel online showing what looked like a very easy way to make a cylinder and fit it to a base.  Tonight was a chance to give it a try.   Hard to explain in words something that was so simple to watch.  In essence, a slab of clay rolled around a piece of plastic pipe.  The clever bit is stretching a sock over the pipe first and then sliding the clay neatly off the pipe by pulling the sock through the pipe .... got it?   It worked although I always say you learn best by your mistakes :-) code for I made a few elementary errors along the way!   Extra pic of the work in progress.   It was lovely to have a phone chat with Lovetrees while the cylinder was drying off a bit, just a minute or two after the pic above was taken.

A few days off ahead now :-)

The panoramic shot taken from outside pottery makes the hills look small and far away .... think Father Ted ... but they're neither of those things!