Where did the day go? It seems I spent hours wadding my pieces. Others were collecting all sorts of materials from the Medalta work yard to make plinths and use the historical connections for their displays for next Tuesday. An extraordinary storm, typical of MH in June we're told, roared in and out - hot sun, black cloud, thunder, lightning, huge hail and bright sun…

During the morning I helped load a bisque. Otherwise I started on getting all the insides of my pieces glazed - mostly shino and some with the 'Yellow Salt' available here. I don't have to do anything to the outsides - it all depends on the slips I applied before bisque. Great excitement for some as the wood kiln was finally opened. Brenda and I…

I figure this was the last day to make anything new and get it dry and bisqued. So I merely threw 5 tumblers with some remaining clay and spent the rest of the day watching the serious sunshine dry out yesterday's pieces. Now the Watering Canard, Flowerage, 2 jugbirds, a butter dish and a squared bowl are sprayed with slip and set in the kiln…

10pm on another really busy day and the security guard will come to lock the door to the college internet room any minute. I waited for Brenda to finish her wood-firing shift until 11.30pm last night so we had a more relaxed morning today. Even so I assembled another piece, a Watering Canard, monitored the careful drying of other jugbirds and sprayed several to leave…

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…