Was up before 7am. Brenda had a kiln to load and a shift on the wood firing. I filled my day with preparing my rooster for bisque firing. I assembled  a ‘flowerage’ – a variation on a flower brick, put handles on two jugbirds and mixed up some more blue slip. My earthenware slip coloured with Mason Wedgewood stain works really nicely in salt.

A gorgeous sunny day so the danger of flooding seems to be over. I threw some more pieces so that I can be assembling first thing tomorrow, then joined some others for burger barbecue and now, at almost 11pm I’m waiting for Brenda to finish her wood firing shift. She’s ‘stoked’ by the experience having never been involved in any atmospheric firings before. All the kilns are being used now.