I love the relationship of cousins – they’re family without the politics! So, it was good to catch up with my cousin the potter who lives in Leeds, Yorkshire, at the weekend. There is virtually a generation between us because of the differences in ages of our mothers, so her sons are actually a lot closer […]
Well after many months in the making, my new website is live. It doesn’t sound a lot, that simple sentence, but every picture, every page, every sentence, has been put in, painstakingly,  through long laborious hours and many late nights of pouring through old emails, rewriting old paragraphs,  hunting for new information and answering my webmasters many questions. Between us we have created […]
Almost there, so close, I can feel it with my stretched out finger tips……. ….the new website will soon be live and ready to go! And this new WordPress blog is the final hurdle to get me there.
She came to collect her drawing yesterday, as we’d agreed, and to see it for the first time. Up to then she’d only seen it as an email attachment on her blackberry but was very pleased with it she told me over the phone. I welcomed her in to the house, out of the steadily pouring rain, and ushered […]
It’s been a week. Of illness and sore throats and feeling like shit. I’ve no idea of where the spiteful virus came from, knocking me for six with its casual ease. To start with I thought it was just the first cold of the winter, but two days later when I felt I was swallowing razorblades, […]
I don’t get colds very often…maybe one or two a year, which I suppose is the average for most people. I always think there’s not a lot you can do but get on with it, as the cold will run its course. I’ll take various medications, to help it along its way, and take good […]
I made the acquaintance of a new friend the other week, and liked her very much. Since then we’ve chatted on the phone, and texted, a little, as you do when you get on. I knew a little bit about her, and her background, I’d met her man, knew what he did, and bit by […]
She googled “Artists in Staffordshire” and my name came up. I’m still not quite sure why, since I don’t live in Staffordshire. But, nevermind, work is work, and I know people find me from various places. She chose me because she bought the house she currently lives in from someone also called Adshead, and the name […]
Well, the day of the exhibition set-up arrived full of golden September sunshine and promise! The drive to London was going to take three hours, there was no doubt whatsoever about that one, but at least I had good company with my man, and we arrived at Hoxton reasonably easily. Its not an area of […]