Pottery to die for ? Not just yet sunny Jim!

My previous Blog was entitled

 "Heading into the unknown life as a potter in 2016".

Some times you wonder what your subconscious is telling you?
Lets start off with the Good News
" I'm OK ".
at the end of January I had two heart attacks within a week
of each other.
Since then I've been in Hospital and had two stents put in
and now after a period of taking it easy for a few weeks
I'm going to be fitter and healthier than ever.
Here we are on my return to the workshop.

I've never really been ill before

This was the first time I had ever had to stay in hospital for a few days.

I've always been a bit lucky on that front.

I was in Taunton Musgrove Hospital

I can't even watch an episode of Casualty

let alone find myself on the set!

Nice to see someone had an order for NHS mugs. 

even if it was a factory in Stoke on Trent.

My shot of my bed side legs seemed to create a stir

but I'm not going to take up frock wearing, even if it does mean 

I can increase my prices,

Just a thought "is there a correlation between the height of the

hem and the height of the prices"?

On a more serious note it would appear that working all hours

as a potter and constantly pushing yourself to do more and more

each month has taken it's toll.

and my body found a way to tell me to slow down,

take more care of myself and Marion

and make changes that are going to benefit us both. 

 I only had a week away from the pottery but it seemed like ages.
Marion was Brilliantly able to step in and keep things going
with a number of glaze firings

 and she has been running the taster sessions
almost single handed for a while now.

 I've decided to pull out of a few smaller shows this year
and concentrate on having more stock in the showroom.
I love being able to chat to our customers and it's so much nicer
when you have more stock to talk about.

 The sun even came out the day we unloaded this small kiln load.

 I'm on light duties at the moment so you might start seeing more
pictures of pots as I get to grips with the best ways to show our pots off
to their best.
This was an early trial in the gas kiln at home back in 2008.

I would like to Thank all of the people that have sent me their best wishes

and wished me a speedy recovery.

The pottery world are a great bunch of people and I'm going to do all

I can to remain a vibrant part of it.

One step at a time of course.