We had pondered the idea of visiting the Pottery Museum for some time, every since we started watching The Great Pottery Throwdown really. It was quite good in parts, but I don't really think it was necessary to inspect five different bottle kilns... I mean we got the idea after the first two that it was hot, dangerous work.
The best bit was watching a chap throwing a vase on a wheel and also watching a lady make some pottery flowers. Another woman in the same part of the museum showed us how to cast small parts, but she caused consternation when she claimed the Pottery Throwdown hadn't made a blind bit of difference to their visitor numbers. I refuse to believe that, we probably would never have gone there and I'm sure thousand of others must have been inspired to visit by the show.
Whatever, the tail end of the museum was a little tedious, tiles really aren't that exciting and the latter part was given over to toilets... but really it went a bit beyond that and turned into the National Museum of Shit. Which was a bit much, especially before lunch.
Mildly disappointed that we didn't get to see Keith or Rose, but didn't really expect to. They probably don't even work there normally.
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