My father and his father are both potters<\/p>\n
We have a shop and a very small factory<\/p>\n
Not far from the down harbour<\/p>\n
It was called or rather nicknamed<\/p>\n
The Curse of the Professionals\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n A throwaway remark from my mother<\/p>\n In the summer we are quite busy<\/p>\n And trade using the brand name Curse<\/em><\/p>\n In the winter we are closed for business<\/p>\n Except for mail order and appointments in person<\/p>\n During this time we discuss designs<\/p>\n For the following season and other ideas<\/p>\n Although I am part of our small business<\/p>\n I am not always in the county<\/p>\n As I travel around England seeking out ancient songs<\/p>\n Which I then record and catalogue<\/p>\n I also write poetry and fictions<\/p>\n And this helps me to see new designs<\/p>\n Some of these are followed through<\/p>\n And make it to the shelves<\/p>\n Whereas others exist only in my head<\/p>\n Although I have yet to meet my life partner<\/p>\n I feel that I am in a loving relationship<\/p>\n With the sounds of the past<\/p>\n And the beauty of the wheel<\/p>\n It is because of this that I am a happy man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My father and his father are both potters We have a shop and a very small factory Not far from the down harbour It was called or rather nicknamed The Curse of the Professionals\u00a0 A throwaway remark from my mother In the summer we are quite busy And trade using the brand name Curse In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}