Late Cuppa

Yet Another Early Start

   It was again an early start for me this morning, I woke to the sound of those big fen winds blowing across the rich dark fields and after laying there for half an hour I knew it was no use, I had to get up and about. So out I went to turn on the kiln and get things ready for another day of bliss working with my flame, the barn always feels so different on these dark mornings, cold and sleeping like an old giant waiting to come to life with the flick of a light switch, then it becomes such a magical place where glass and fire work together, a place that keeps us warm through all the winter and a place where worries disappear for the day.
   It's another late coffee time for me today and now the sunshine fills the garden while the strong winds make the conifer trees dance, all to the sound of the lock keeper working the lock a few hundred yards across the fields, some winter boater must be passing through Upwell. Those little canal boats look so cosy with their little stove chimney's smoking away, the stoves inside keeping the boat nice and warm.
   All types to make today bead wise but I also need to throw a few pots this afternoon, it's been five days since I was playing on my wheel and I have missed it, that little kid inside me who loves to be covered in wet clay needs to get out again to enjoy himself. I found some old shelf brackets in the tool barn so I managed to get more shelves up in the clay room, the more the better for standing pots and bowls on to dry, the place really seems to be taking shape now, it looks like a potters room at last.
  Ok I better get back to it, things to make and dreams to dream !