I’ve not long got back from watching a free preview of ‘Made in Dagenham‘. I am most definitely not a film critic, so I’m not even going to attempt to review the film. Safest to say, I really enjoyed it; it filled me in on just how women came to have equal pay with men…
Tag: West German Pottery
Silberdistel: West German Ceramics
During the last blog I wrote, I suddenly became very self-conscious about the fact that I was writing. I’d looked at my stats and found that over 1200 views had been counted last month and I suddenly thought, “Blimey, it’s not just me, Aidan and our parents that read this anymore!” I’m not sure why…
Bay Keramik: Some New, Some Old
It’s safe to say that the German Road Trip: Part Two was a massive success! We’ve arrived home with over 140 pieces of pottery, several retro lamp shades, a few 80s metal clocks, plant pots, some pieces of glass and two version of J.H. Lynch’s ‘Tina’ print. Phew! Once again, Tina (the KA) did not…
Scheurich Pot and Planter
More attempts to take slightly better photos of pots: This is what I think of as being as ‘Aidan’ style photo – put it on a jaunty angle and see what happens! Love the glazes on these. They’re extremely bright and look fantastic with our other red and orange pots in the bedroom. We’re off…
Scheurich 414: New Glazes
Since coming back from Germany a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been fairly busy sorting out the pots we bought, selling them on to Wowie Zowie (as previously mentioned) and some to Planet Vintage Girl. If you’ve been reading my previous posts about West German Pottery, you’ll have seen that I’m amassing a collection of…
Lovely Lava, Gorgeous Glazes, Perfect Pots…
Here are some of the photos from the collection we brought back. We’ve taken out ones that we want to keep, now we just have to find out how to sell the others. Probably not going to be an easy task! Some we’re keeping: Those are some of my favourites; there’s plenty more to…
Ransbach-Baumbach and Jopeko
After Essen, we had to make our way South towards Worms and Speyer. Before we set off, we trundled around a few more Trödelmarkts, filling the car up even further. Once Tina was fit to bursting yet again, we began the next leg of our journey. We spotted that our route was going to take…
Part Two: The Ruhrgebeit
Another thing about me and travelling: map-reading. I’m pretty shocking at it. I have a tendency to send us off a junction or road too early, can’t seem to orientate the map and find it really difficult to follow where we are on our route. This hasn’t helped us being able to find Trödelmarkts which…
German Road Trip: Travelling, Tongeren and Trödelmarkts
It probably wasn’t a good sign when I got us lost in Britain. Our first stopover was to break up the journey to Dover, staying at Aidan’s brother’s house in Letchworth. Unfortunately, I managed to direct Aidan off the motorway a stop too early and we spent a good half an hour trundling down some…
A Mini Ebay Purchase
My latest Ebay find – quite poor advertising meant this was mine for £7 including postage: Goes quite nicely with my other one: We’re going to Germany tomorrow. I’m a little bit excited, so thought I’d do a bit of WGP blogging to get me even more excited. I have also listened to Neneh Cherry’s…
Birthday and Booting…
Well, last week it was my birthday and now I’m another year closer to thirty… I don’t mind so much, but it is a slightly strange feeling. I keep expecting somebody to stop me and say, “Right, the game is up. You’re not really [insert age here]; you’re really sixteen. Stop pretending to be an…
Newark International Antiques & Collector’s Fair
Bit of a bumper Friday Find for this entry! On Friday 9th April, Aidan and I trundled on over to Newark in Tina (the Ford KA). This was before the excitement of Little Owl Ski at the Car Boot Sale took over – and subsequently the blogging has been put back by the usual back-to-school-therefore-I-have-no-life…
Little Owl Ski 