Pottery Throwdown

 

Pottery created by master potter 
 Chrissy H Roberts

Watching Keith Brymer Jones on TV

Judging pottery

It's a bit of a lottery

As to whether or not he might cry?

Thrown down and in slabs, 'lovey'

Assessing pottery

Is a lot of a lottery

 Will Keith weep, get emotional and cry.

Out of the drying room and into the fire

Baked to a bisque 

Or porcelain risked

Will Keith get smoked up, choked up and cry?

Underglaze, over glaze and raku free

There is many a clay slip

Twixt saucer, cup and lip.

So, will Keith say 'Brilliant lovey' and cry?

Who will be the 'Potter of the Week'? 

And who will be be leaving the pottery tonight?

A ceramic finale, featuring fight or flight

When Keith and the 'Kiln Gods' may cry.

More doggerel from George  Roberts September 2026 

Get Tanked up with Syd Carp No 8 - Automatic Feeder

 

Ledgendary aquarist and tropical fish fancier, Syd Carp,  dropped into the Cabine today bearing a gift (less than £25) from his mate Geoffrey Amazon (no relation). A digital automatic fish feeder!  Whatever next?🤯

As I said at the time " This looks like unnecessary fun"😱

"What did I say Roy"?🤣

"This looks like unnecessary fun"🤫

We are currently in the experimental stage of testing whether it works. Fish expiring or growing porky will be the litmus test for the device!🐷⚰️

I couldn't help but think that as my brain atrophies with age, at least the fish will be fed..

The alternative to the automatic feeder is Syd Carp and Dave Angel taking up permanent residency chez nous.

Happenstance

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Art is definitely in the eye of the beholder and sometimes it is the result of a happy accident , aka 'Happenstance''.

I was looking for something in the Cabine, when I noticed that a plate of copper, given to me by friends, had suffered from surface contamination and subsequent corrosion. The marks upon the plate's surface were intriguing and to me  looked liked an 'Ankylosaurus' from the late Cretaceous Period.

AI provided the landscape!

Rainbow Fish

The Rainbow fish in my tank

Shall I name him Fred or Frank?

Such a cheerful vibrant guy

Stares at me with a jet black eye

Contemplating a desperate dark dystopian dish

Chips fried in dripping and him a battered fish.

George Roberts September 2026

A big bang 44 million years ago

Type 1a Supernova in the galaxy NGC 1399, Constellation Pegasus. Credit: Jodrell Plank Observatory.

Who doesn't like a big bang in a galaxy 44 million light years away? 

Two stars, one a white dwarf and one a red giant were orbiting a common point of gravity. The much denser white dwarf stripped hydrogen from the red giant until the Chandrasekhar Limit for mass was exceeded, at which point the white dwarf exploded in a cataclysmic explosion that briefly exceeded the light from all the millions of stars in the galaxy core. The light from that explosion has been travelling to us for 44 million years where we see it as happening in real time.

Waning and wailing

 

 

Paul Simon wrote a song about the Moon  

A real 'Hearts and Bones' spiritual tune

It found a place to hide in my head

But it sings to my soul instead.

As I look up into the cerulean sky

And watch the waning Moon sail by

I think about wailing his words

Whilst I watch the Moon and the birds

"If you want to write a song about the moon

Walk along the craters in the afternoon"

George and Paul in no particular order. September 2026.

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There's a storm coming.

 

There's a storm coming

Over the marsh from the sea

There's a change coming

It's  coming for you and me.

There's a storm coming

Lightning with rolling thunder

There's a change coming 

Tearing air and lives asunder.

There's a storm coming 

Stock the pantry store

There's a change coming

Close and lock the door.

There's a storm coming

Be measured and prepared

There's a change coming 

Be counted in those who cared

There's a change coming

It's coming for you and me

There's a storm coming

Over the marsh and next the sea.

There's a storm coming!

George Roberts - August Bank Holiday Weekend 2026