Employed by Val to make myself useful — whilst she was working on her latest book and box — she got me to undertake some stack & slam wedging, as part of her crash-course induction training (alongside expert tuition on throwing, by Gay) into the intricacies of all things clay and ceramic.
And the resultant almost Arctic-ice core-sample sedimentary layers look, reminded me of something.
But what?
It took me ages to find the particular memory that it had jogged in this sizzled old brain pan. And then I recalled seeing recent mention of this old Guardian piece by Tim Hayward (dating all the back to 2010), of a shooter’s sandwich & the light-bulb went off…
