Hello,
My name is Terry Cotter. I’m a potter.
I have been potterising for over 20 years and stock a wide range of ceramic goods in my shop The Potter’s Reel, down here in Lower Swell. The shop is named after my potter’s wheel which goes round and round. Like a reel.
We have a Sale on at the moment. All plates are £5 each, mugs are £2.50 each and the hand finished ceramic bananas, which didn’t fly of the shelves are reduced to £547 each. Value For Money. Only another 6,567 to shift. So come on down.
Here are some reviews of some of my favourite bits from the world they call “Art”.
1. Painting
Autumn Rhythm – One of Jackson Pollock’s most famous. I don’t have a clue either.
2. Movies
Dances With Wolves – Don’t Dance With Wolves. They will eat you. Great car chase and the underwater fight scenes are wonderful. Who will ever forget Whitney Houston’s theme tune? Goes on a bit.
3. Music
Michael Buble- Christmas – I love Micheal Bubble – Ba Ba Boo Boo so to speak – I just haven’t met him yet – needs to wash his hair first though – it is greasy in my opinion. Goes on a bit.
4. Literature
The Times Atlas Of The World – Got this for Christmas! Maps spelt backwards is Spam. Now there’s a thought. Goes on a bit.
Village News
The Postman
Whoever stole his rubber band ball (10 years in the making) could they please return it. He was only four short of the world rubber band collection set by an itinerant Sioux postal worker stalker in the Oklahoma in the 1960’s.
Request Review – The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes
This was requested by the marvellous Hollyannegetspoetic (http://hollyannegetspoetic.wordpress.com/).
Ted Hughes was a poet (I once went out with a girl called Ted Hughes). He had a famous girlfriend (Anne Frank I think her name was) and he wrote a lot of poems. They didn’t rhyme so he can’t have been very good.
This one is about a Fox thinking about writing a poem. Clever Fox I say. Bit hard for a Fox to hold a pen though. And it doesn’t rhyme. So not such a clever Fox. Goes on a bit too.
My wife said it was an Allegory. Shame he lost to George Bush.
‘Til next time – The Wheel Keeps On Turning!
TCTP
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Have you considered printing the Jackson Pollock piece on the bananas to increase sales?
Maybe Jackson could autograph them. (The bananas would be worth even more since he’s dead!)
Can you imagine the state of his handwriting? (and not just because he is dead)
Thanks for that tip about not dancing with wolves, Jim.
Here to educate as well as entertain Kate!
I’m now going to be a little distracted by Michael Buble’s hair. I forgot the lengthy car chase in Dances with Wolves…or did I?
The Director’s Cut!
I’m a new fan of Michael Buble. I must have hit that age lol.
The thought of Michael Buble made me want to order a banana for some reason… What are the p&p rates?
And so flattered to have my request review granted! And what an astute and nuanced reading. But are you trying to tell me foxes don’t have opposable thumbs? I thought the recent BBC3 programme “Mongrels” was a documentary about the urban fox? No? Oh.
Actually, Mr Cotter has been an influence on me more profoundly than I could’ve suspected. I recently threw aside a rather tedious David Lodge novel with the words “Goes on a bit…”
Keep that wheel turning!
His legend is spreading – ceramic foxes in the kiln as I write. Keep ’em turning!
And, you know what, I’ve only just got the “terracotta” reference…. duh!
Welcome aboard!
Rubber band balls can be dangerous, but this is neither the time nor place for such a debate.
Agreed