Planned 3 months ago, we were very lucky with the weather .
The firing was mainly to get some stuff ready for Bren’s Emsworth open studio weekends, though her venue had lost it’s roof to a fire the previous night.
Bren bought two people , one non combatant and another, ( Linda ) who was being a bit fishy.
I had made a top hat kiln especially to fire single larger pots for horse hair and feathers , it was amazingly quick to get it up to 800 which is the best temp for horse hair and feather, stinky business.
I can’t get hardwood sawdust anymore and the softwood chips were very smoky, note to self buy a good mask.
We had a very convivial lunch and had a very enjoyable day, although it felt like a hundred extra strong cigarettes, onto the next one in April.
Whitecroft Pottery 