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I'm in my ninetieth year and
            I am now in the smallest workshop with a Japanese-style te-rokuro
            hand-wheel and a small kiln.  

            I'm almost back to my 'beginnings' in the post-war years, sixty-five
            or more ago when I first met Harry Memmott and through him Merv
            Feeney who had just become a working partner in the pioneering
            Sandison Pottery.  Neither Harry nor I were potters at that
            time but we became ones, and also neighbours, and it was the
            beginning of a long friendship. We owed much of what we learned
            to Merv, who himself had been a pottery apprentice, then also
            an industrial chemist and finally, for us and for others, a memorable
            and generous teacher. Harry has gone, Merv. has too and I'm soon
            to go but we were grateful to have lived in those times.

            


            This free-form platter has a shino-type glaze and is 34 by 34
            cms. All these final forms were made in 2016