PLEASURE OR RAGE, FOLLOWED BY THE BUYERS' VISITS,
PACKING AND SHIPPING AND BACK TO IT AGAIN, ONLY THIS TIME
PERHAPS A NEW IDEA OR THOUGHT OR DESIRE TO DO IT ANOTHER
WAY. MCNEY WAS NEEDED FOR EXPENSES AND LIVING AND BEER
AND COFFEE. LIFE BASICALLY WAS A VERY SIMPLE AFFAIR WITH
SERIOUS UNDERTONES. HANGING OVERHEAD WAS THE SICKNESS
PROBLEM, ALL THIS WHILE BETWEEN VISITS TO VERNON EFWAS
BUILDING MY BUSINESS AND WORKING AT MY OWN WORK. WE WROTE
BACK ANIL FORTH AND GOT THINGS FOR EACH OTHER. WE ENJOYED
A POTTER'S KNOWLEDGE THAT WITHIN A FEW HOURS DRIVE WAS
SOMEONE TO TALK TO AND A SOURCE OF WHATEVER WE DID NOT
HAVE AND NEEDED. OUR OTHER POTTER FRIENDS FROM THE
STATES AND ENGLAND CAME TO VISIT FROM TIME TO TIME, WE
NEVEE TALKED POTTERY. NOT IN THE SENSE OF TALKING
POTTERY AS THEY DO AT MEETINGS AND SEMINARS ETC, -WE JUST
TALKED. 1 HAD A LETTER FROM HIM ONE MONDAY MORNING AND
PUT IT ASIDE TO ANSWER DURING THE WEEK. 1 SUDDENLY FELL
ILL AND ¥.AS AWAY FOR TWO WEEXS IN HOSPITAL, I CAME BACK
TO WORK AND OPENED THE DOOR AND BENT DOWN TO PICK UP
THE ACCUMULATED MAIL. THERE WAS A CUT-OUT CLIPPING
FROM A NEWSPAPER LYING AMONGST IT ALL. I OPENED IF AND
REAL IT. MY FRIEND HAD DIED SUDDENLY FROM ACCUMULATED
AILMENTE OF HEART AND LUNGS AND A HOST OF POTTERS
TROUBLES. I PUT THE CLIPPING AWAY. MY FRIEND WAS DEAD
AND BURIED. IT WAS TOO LATE TO GO TO VERNON. IT HAS BEEN
LONELY IM THE YEARS SINCE, ALL THIS RAN THROUGH MY HEAD
AS I LOOKED AT THE DISPLAY OF MY FRIEND'S POTTERY IN THE

SHOP WINLOW.

DAVID LAMBERT

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