Ready For The Weather

Gale Warnings

   Well with the sound of gale warnings for this week ringing in our ears we start the week huddled next to the kiln safe and sound, the rest of the world races by without even knowing we are here and to be honest that's just how I like it.
   The weekend was a warm one for us having lit the wood burner stove in the sitting room for once the house seemed normal, warm and inviting. It was the first time this winter we had lit it and boy did it make a difference, with not having any heating in the cottage apart from a few tiny electric rads that we find very expensive to run it was so nice to sit and relax without all the layers of clothes, tho we both fell asleep in the evenings haha. Just the site of the flames seem to make it feel warm, I guess we are lucky having the stove as most houses these days don't have any form of open fire.
   I think the stove will be a weekend thing as we never seem to get into the cottage until around 7pm weekdays after working in the barn, so really to light it then would be a waste to time and fuel as by ten I'm ready for bed.
   The week ahead is a busy one with lampwork taking up my time until early afternoon followed by ceramics until the early evening, I'm really looking forward to it, I get to work with two mediums that I love and enjoy using so who could ask for a better job.
   The last of autumn is really down to it's bare bones now with only a few late flowers hanging on here in the garden, seed heads seem to hang around ready to face the cold winter ice and the berry larder puts a smile on the faces of many a blackbird. The ponds formed their first ice of the winter last week with I'm sure much more to come, I guess we are lucky so far as this time last year we had snow hanging around, not clear blue skies like we see here over the fens this morning.
   I better get off to my flame, I have focals to make and wine bottles to hammer this morning, oh how different the life of a beadmaker !