The best Ideas of Mice and Men ...

Oh well, it was good whilst it lasted! My great plan to set up a workshop for amateur ceramicists is currently lying amongst the clay turnings on the pottery floor.  I pulled the plug on it this weekend.  The premises that I had been intending to buy was becoming less and less a good idea.  There were issues over how the electricity was going to be serviced and you cannot run a kiln without a sure supply of power.  It also transpired that there were issues about the ownership of the area just outside the front door.  It began to look as though I would be trespassing every time I visited the workshop!  All that added to issues about who was responsible for the maintenance of the access road, the restrictive covenants controlling what kinds of activities could take place there and the minor point that according to my sources the premises was vastly over priced - I really had no choice.
Now I am back to square one.  Not only am I not now creating a place for other people to work in.  I also have nowhere to work for myself.  How frustrating is that when a couple of weeks ago it all looked so exciting.
So now I am on the prowl.  No garage or garden shed within a 5 mile radius is safe from my investigations as I search for a place to set up the potters wheel that I had already laid my hands on and the kiln of my dreams.  I have reached a stage where the clay is well and truly under my finger nails now and I do not want to stop making things.  I know that my skills leave a lot to be desired and I need a place to practise in order to become the next Ken Eastman or Alison Britton.
Wish me luck and, in the mean time, lock up your sheds if you see me approaching . . . .