The Potscast

As promised, this episode deals with tying up the loose ends of the ‘lost SoundCloud episodes’ debacle.

I answer two main questions:

* What’s the story with the land?

* Why didn’t I get my studio built?

I recount my final lessons learned and I announce my new adventure.

Look out for my new ‘Finishing the Dream’ starting in March 😁

In this episode we get to know Debbie Schwartz Murphy.

Debbie recounts her pottery story - From her inspiration and mentors, to her pottery aspirations. If you want to know more about the people who helped her on her journey, you can find them below.

Renee Heyer-Starett - can be found here

Heather Henning - can be found here

To watch the Tim See Video - Click here

Debbie also tells us how pottery changed her life for the better and yes, it does turn into a bit of a positivity therapy session. 😁

Somewhere in the middle, Debbie advocates for the grabbing of knobs 😳 but it’ll make sense when you get there 🤣

Also, talking of things that’ll make sense later, here’s the 6lb Spoon Rest 😁

And if you want to see more of her creations,

Debbie’s Instagram can be found here

If you want any more info about Debbie, you can email her here

Oh and we also talked about what we listen to when working, I know I said Pottery May Playlist, but I think my November playlist has better tunes 😁

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For lists of juried shows and calls for entry - Click here

In this, the final episode of Being Brave, recorded in June 2021, I officially pronounce the experiment over.

I weigh up the entire experience and share my thoughts on the various things I have learned.

There’s even a list of my top 3 ‘Must Dos’

WARNING! The language gets a bit salty here and there, so Under 18s not recommended listeners!

For those of you who were unaware, I lost my gorgeous Missy in April 2022, she was 14 years and 11 months old when she died peacefully in her sleep.

My tribute video to her can be found here

This is the end of the daily updates, I will post a ‘Tying up the loose ends’ podcast to replace the missing episodes, later in the week. From now on the only regular date to remember is

NEW EPISODES OF THE POTSCAST ARE OUT EVERY SATURDAY! 😁

I hope you have enjoyed the series, I hope it has given you some confidence to believe that yes, you too can change your life…

In my final retro Potscast episode, from 2020, I tell the story of how I discovered functional earthenware on the land I bought to build my pottery studio!

This is definitely an episode for ‘wild clay curious’ Potter types 😁

Tune in next Saturday for another “Potscast with…” episode, in which I had the great pleasure of talking to Debbie Schwartz Murphy

If you are a Potter, interested in telling me your pottery story, Email me here

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It’s October 2020 and I’m coming up to the one year anniversary of my arrival on the island.

Before I do my official one year review, I reflect on how my life has changed.

As a little bonus, there’s 10 mins of seaside sounds at the end, so grab yourself a hot drink, settle back and enjoy the waves 😁

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So it’s now September 2020 and it had been a long time since I’d made a podcast.

In the time between, I’d found some land and had a bit of trouble with customs. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced the episodes, so look out for a loose ends episode where I tie up all the loose ends and share all the missing stories.

I talk about all the daily stuff that occurred to me as interesting and how life in general was treating me in the days of covid…

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In this episode from June 2020, I talk about my various interactions with locals.

From the generous thief to the gun toting driver…

and before you come at me about my opportunistic capitalism, remember the sand guy was the friend of the aforementioned gun aficionado, I couldn’t let him and his mates get away with such behaviour Scot-free 🤷🏽‍♀️😈

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This episode came out in February 2020. I had just recovered from the most debilitating bout of flu, I had ever experienced in my life, one night I had such trouble breathing I thought… well, looking back now, I’m guessing it might have been Covid, but I wasn’t to know that at the time…

Why didn’t I know that the entire world was in the process of shutting down?

Well, my pottery equipment arrived on Christmas Eve 2019 and Feb 2020 was the first time I really popped my head up to look around me, even then, I mostly just went to the beach 🤣🤣

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It’s late December 2019 and I’m starting to discover things about living life in Saint Lucia, I’m also starting to come down with something flu-like… 😳

I finally start investigating the garden and start thinking about fruit and veg related things I’ve never before thought about. Sainsbury‘s is a supermarket chain (for my American listeners)

And I have some thoughts about the consequences of the banana trade.

To watch my cashew video Click here

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This episode, from just before Covid hit, in January 2020, was the very beginning of my ‘professional‘ pottery adventure.

For the first time, I was on my own. 😳

Actually I was mostly on the end of a phone call to one of my UK pottery friends 😁

My pottery equipment arrived on Christmas Eve so I made my first piece on Christmas Day 2019. From that moment I basically sank into  a pottery obsession.

In effect, I completely missed the whole covid lockdown thing because I was elbows deep in clay 😁

Spoiler alert!

I eventually developed a stable purple glaze. I still don’t use test tiles 😈 I still don’t use cones 😱🤣

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