Pottery Throw down is BACK!

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Hello all GPTD fans the next series has been announced and will start on 8th January at 7:45. It’s a Sunday night and it’s on Channel 4 as usual.

Festive Pottery Throw Down is on Christmas Day too. James Fleet, Jamie Laing, Jenny Eclair and Sunetra Sarker are the celebrities taking part this year.

There's a Raku Day at Gladstone Pottery on Saturday. I'm tempted!

Christopher deserved to go....not hanging properly is a big deal.

I think that fabiola should have gone Last week though.

For being the throw-down there doesn't seem to be a lot of throwing this season (other than the mini-challenges)!

My handbuilding is terrible though as I'm not creative in that way and also I get impatient with it, so maybe I'm just being a bitter wheel-throwing potter over here 😎

James' technique seems so solid. Would love to see more of him!

I loved the bird challenge. I grew up with Hilda, Stan, their birds and their ‘Muriel’.

I think everyone rose to the challenge.

I understand why they sent him home but my heart broke for hiim.

Personally? My favourites were the gulls and the galahs. Both tickled me. Chuffed for the winner though.

Love raku week. Bring it on 😍

I agree and am very disappointed. I was muttering to myself - "please let it be Fabiola". Nothing against her personally, but I don't like her work and I think Christophe had much more to give.

I loved the bird challenge. I grew up with Hilda, Stan, their birds and their ‘Muriel’.

Mr Viper and I said exactly the same, @ArcaneWireless - "Hilda's Ducks!"

I agree and am very disappointed. I was muttering to myself - "please let it be Fabiola". Nothing against her personally, but I don't like her work and I think Christophe had much more to give.

I love her @knittingaddict , but she should have gone this week. Her birds were rubbish compared to all of the others - out of proportion etc and you couldn't do anything about that, but Christophe's hawks could fairly easily have had an extra "hangar" created to balance that big one. (And the talon glued back on)

*hanger - they aren't aeroplanes! Silly Viper

and Hilda’s ‘going out’ lippy.

I do like Fabiola but it feels as though her peg is proper shoogly.

Those were tha days when Corrie was worth watching @ArcaneWireless - a lovely balance of drama, humour and pathos, both character and plot-driven.

to like the mindless unbelievable sh*te they give us now.

*Not like, not to

<rolls eyes at self>

Och, I haven watched it in years mosh. I might get little bits here and there in the mess but the days of must watch are gone for me.

Bloody loved Hilda. And Stan. And Jack and Vera. Both men battled their wives but really those women were the very centre of their worlds. And you knew it.

The doom fest it is now is a waste. There are probably more folk under the cobbles than on them.

I don't watch it now either - haven't for some years except for catching a few minutes here and there.

Loved, as you say Hilda and Stan, Jack and Vera, also Mavis and Derek, and Blanche - all of these could go from comedy to tragedy and back seamlessly, and be totally believable as human beings.

I used to watch Corrie with my mum back in the days of Ena Sharples, Albert Tatlock, Annie Walker and Bette Lynch. Real characters and the older women weren’t silly or soft - they had authority and grit.

Those strong northern women who held their families together were such great characters.

The storylines were gritty and believable, too. You could really relate to them.

Sad to see Christophe go. He was so sweet. I'm glad other people remember Hilda's ducks. They would always be in different positions in each episode, one of them upside down etc.

I have the original Beswick three flying ducks, and I gave them to my DD who has them in her flat.

Seeing how much they are (they were my parents and definitely from the 50s), I think I might ask for them back!

That's a generous gift, @Roussette !
She'll be obligated to care for you in your dotage now 😉

Absolutely

Just whatsapping her to tell her to look after them!

Corrie was where women absolutely were women.

Vibrant. Strong. Magnificent.

Stately as galleons.

And although I was many miles away from the cobbles, our back gardens had these women. Putting the world right. Ruling their world with a forked tongue and a formidable bosom. A max factor powder puff held deep within jabby thistles.

And bebunneted men like Albert. Like my granda. Observant. Smart. Stoic.

And Wally dugs instead of ducks.

My dad thought it was hilarious when I announced that I was going to have flying ducks on my wall. Got them from Muggins Pottery. They are very precariously balanced on a nail.

I loved it when Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell and Martha Longhurst would be sitting in their own living rooms with their hats on (Edna Birch was the same on Emmerdale).

It was another time . . .

Ready for some pottering!

Ready for raku everyone?

Evening all. Raku week is my favourite

My favourite, too!