On my way to Whistler I stopped at the home of Bette Copeland in West Vancouver to deliver the Blue-Footed Booby. She had found the Booby jugbird on my website and bought it. But she has been away for some months so she allowed me to display it in our Fantastic Feast show in the interim. I think she’s quite glad he’s had a life! and she intends to call him BLU.

When I got to there it turns out she already has a jug bird, bought at Celia Pickles’ Christmas sale at the Silk Purse gallery in 2011. And she’d asked me to bring another along for her daughter so there is now a salt jugbird in her collection.

We shared memories of her old friend, our now-departed and much-missed BC Potters Guild newsletter editor Letia Richardson.