Thursday, 28 May 2009
Zodiac '09

Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Mud Sofa's Are Us!

Family & friends of the staff and children dropped by during the day for pizza, sausage rolls and a shed load of muck spreading!
This bench had a distinctly modern feel - a contemporary, curved design - (I'm sure there must be an appropriate clay inspired acronym for DFS!) We all finished just in time before the heavens opened, and generously watered the grass seed we had sewn into the surface.
The whole area looks fantastic - mud pit, mud screen, marble run, and finally a sofa. A real testament to the enthusiasm, vision and hard work of the staff, children and parents - well done Mirka and Ruth!
Carlsberg Team Day
What better way to bond together a freshly formed team of marketing professionals than with mud!
Helen Forbes (Senior Category Insight Manager for Carlsberg), brought her colleagues to Eastnor Pottery, for a three hour teambuilding session. The group spent time making a collaborative pot, decorating the surface with self portraits and items symbolising their unique attributes and occupational contribution to the new team.


As the group was relatively small (6 people), everybody was assigned a potter's wheel for the afternoon, and spent the remainder of the session perfecting their technique.
A fantastic and rewarding time was had by all: "I'll be recommending you to everyone I can think of in the corporate world. We all need more mud in our lives ",commented Helen later.
Thursday, 14 May 2009
University of the Great Outdoors

Spring Gardening Show

This year at the Spring Gardening Show, I vacated the relative warmth/roof over my head of the Severn Hall, and worked instead in the permanent Learning Garden. I spent three muddy days creating a large earth sofa, accosting passers by, or thrusting a lump of soggy cob onto their hands and getting them to hurl it at the structure. This one's going to be sewn with wild flower seeds.
Evesham Bread Oven
One of the things I really cherish about working with the staff at Evesham Nursery, is their willingness to allow me to experiment with new ideas. I'd never made a clay bread oven before, but having expressed an interest in building one, the head embraced the idea with enthusiasm. So it was I spent two fabulous spring days with the children in the Nursery's forest school, digging earth, mixing cob, shaping bricks and generally having a messy nice time! 
On day two we lit small fires in the oven to help dry it out. Whilst the oven smoked quietly, we built another fire in base camp, and smoke fired some of the pots the children had made previously on the potter's wheel...and some people have to work for a living!

On day two we lit small fires in the oven to help dry it out. Whilst the oven smoked quietly, we built another fire in base camp, and smoke fired some of the pots the children had made previously on the potter's wheel...and some people have to work for a living!