Hello. I'm a potter. I love ceramics, I collect, research and deal in antique ceramics, as well as having my own pottery studio.
I think deeply about everything.
I do not have a TV - but I do like films.
My car is old, but functions. I have no further interest in cars than that. I have almost no interest in money.
I live alone in a large isolated C17th farmhouse.
I have a 1st Class BSc (Hons) combined degree (Business computer systems and Visual arts / Ceramics).
I have hundreds of tools and machines. I love making things. I invent, design, create. I'm artistic but also technical.
I have two daughters (17 + 19) who don't live with me.
I have 1000's of books, but I sold off my sci-fi books and novels to make more room for my ceramics books.
I feel things deeply and I cry when my heart is broken. I have a purple belt in Shotokan Karate. I stand up for myself and for others. I am nobody's master, I am nobody's servant.
I laugh out loud often - especially at myself (and my dancing).
I'm working on several research projects about antique ceramics. The ultimate goal is to find meaning in existence... and love? Maybe they are the same thing?
I'm painfully honest and I cannot live with or understand dishonesty. I also value: Compassion, Truth, Beauty, And Pots, (I know, weird, but the I Ching said I was "the guardian of the sacred vessels" and it was spot on).
I spend a lot of time thinking about the meaning of existence. Why is there something, rather than nothing? I think about everything.
I do not like religions but I am agnostic rather than atheist - I have a very deep distrust of all organised religion. I see the Dao / Tao / god in everything and nothing. I am often filled with wonder at existence.
I've had a very hard life. Seriously. And I've often been told that I should put my life story into a book.
I have however also had two years of professional therapy, which did wonders to overcome the damage. I embrace the world without fear. I'm very far from perfect, but I am comfortable in myself.
You should also know that... My teeth are terrible (I broke a front tooth whilst playing on a child's scooter) but nothing a dentist couldn't fix...
I've never been unfaithful - I know, not very exciting, but true.
I love deeply, but I've been told that I'm not very good at showing it. |