New pots are in the process of being finished for this show. I have been working on the double gourd shape and I am fairly pleased with process.

This year has flown by. The show that Su Hanna and I had at the Clay Energy Conference in Gulgong was quite the success. Su and I spent most of our time talking to interested potters about our work and for me it was pushing the barrow that wood fired work does not have to be brown. We were interviewed by a couple of students for assignments and basically sold pots and talked our heads off.

I am now in the process of preparing for a show at the Kerry Lowe Gallery at Newtown in Sydney in early October and then a group show at the Cudgegong Gallery in Gulgong in November. Between now and then I will be in a group show with the people who I worked with in China. The show is at the Masterworks Gallery in Ponsonby , Auckland , New Zealand opening on the 21st of July.

I'd like to appologise to my clients at Huntington for leaving two days early after having assured them that I would be there selling for the entire festival. I had a medical problem early Saturday morning and had to pull out. Please contact me if you had a pot you were intested in purchasing or come to the Christmas sale on the weekend of the 5th and 6th December.

At last the winter months seem to have left us behind. I know it has been a very mild winter but I do much preferr the warmer times of the year. I have been keeping my self entertained by firing with Chester Nealie and then just last week with my friend in Victoria Su Hanna.I have yet to see the pots from that firing but feel sure there will be some good results. It was interesting to travel to Bendigo where Su is based. I have never been to that part of Victoria before and was very admiring of the architecture of Bendigo or at least the little I saw of it. It looks like a beautiful city. While we were there we took the opportunity to visit Kylie and Hayden and the first family grand child Matilda. Now that is one of lifes greats. On our way home we stopped in Canberra over night and went to see Owen Ryes show at the Watson Pottery Centre.Well worth a look and then went out to a place called Stathnarne [ not sure about the spelling] to see Owen who is in Canberra for 3 weeks. Don and I had a good prowl around all the kilns there as I desperatly want a wood kiln of my own . I am having alot of trouble choosing which type to build. Too much choice I suspect!!

I will be part of a group exhibtition at Studio Alterburg in Wallace St Braidwood in July. The show will be opened by Gail Nichols and looks like it will be very interesting with a broad selection of work on show. It is about jugs. Wonderful things they are. I enjoy making them very much and using them in a number of ways.so get along if you can.

I have almost finished an unbelievably busy month or so. Not to say that it hasn't been extremely enjoyable.Started with a wonderful invitation to the races at Randwick for the Autumn Carnival. Oh I do love going to the races. So that was really good fun . Then my Aunt Bet turned 100,so cousins out from U.K.and many family gatherings and lots of late nights and very good fun. Don and I have also been up at Mooramaju fixing up the lovely house that we have on 14 acres and trying desparatly to work out how we can afford to have two houses going rather than let the house to a tennant. Not possible at this stage but how spoilt for choice are we. Two lovely places to live. At this stage we will remain in the mountains. It is so, so dry up there no water in the creek so the garden is dead such a shame. There used to be a great lawn all around the house, but the last tennant had ponies and the nieghbor has goats ,need I say more. This week we will finish all repairs and put in new carpet. Then I will go out to janet Mansfiels to help fire her racer kiln and when that is finished that should be the end of our madness for the time being. I did fire the kiln last week and that seems to have been a reasonable success. I haven't really had a good look at it yet as I have been doing an Advanced Fire Fighters course this weekend and that was really great I just have to knuckle down and study some of the new skills shown to us so I pass the assessment in about 6 weeks.