For Sian

[fenbadger]

This was on the new recently with huger waves. I have loads of photos from there. I took over 200 one night as I was sure I would not repeat the occasion.

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Yep, the waves were high just like that and as a child quite scary and nothing like the kiddies show Portland Bill!

Now! I do like taking pictures of waves crashing and I took loads when at uni doing my degree for research purposes (won't bore you) of the waves at Hartlepool and Sunderland as high as that. They'd spill onto the promenades and soak you if you weren't careful

I worked in the hotel on the seafront too and it was frightening going for the bus home when stormy/windy as it would carry me off like Mary Poppins without the umbrella past the bus stop and sometimes the bus would go past you so stuck holding onto lamp posts til the next one turned up LOLOL

One of my good friends is from Portland area, can't remember where exactly but his grandad/ancesters were fishermen down there. My friend has a little book that was produced about them and I think it may have been connected to singing.................. blame the fog it was a few years ago when he showed me.

His family are still kicking around down there

[fenbadger]

Hee hee. And that was a fairly quiet day. Go on, I'm intrigued. What was your thesis?

I lives and worked in Redcar for a bit. It was always cold there and the sea often dumped rubbish in the high street.

I've had to get off my bike and push along the Fleet.

There's 3 places you can launch on Portland, Church Ope, The Bill with the crane in the photo and Chiswell which is getting a pasting right now. Portland is lovely. So many stories in a place only 4 miles long

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Honestly Paul my degree was in glass and ceramics

I would have to go into the chemistry of glazing and its techniques to explain what I was doing. Basically I liked to capture nature to study the patterns and formations that could be transferred onto clay through the use of glazing and texture making. Too many things to explain.

Away from that my final exhibition was, however, a series of pieces reflecting the degradation of bone through diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis. They were large sculptural pieces comprising of two that sat on top of each other as a joint it was abstracted originally from a finger joint, which looks just like the knee joint when enlarged.

Most of them stood 2ft tall but as degradation got worse the pieces would be battered and crunched etc so didn't stand as tall.

Probably bored you to death by now so better stop

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Not at all! You'd be amazed what interests me. but I agree we probably don't have resources for a crash course in ceramics

A couple of years ago I joined in a University of Winchester experiment to see if examination of human remains could be speeded up so that they could be treated with more dignity and re interred with less fuss. I saw mini knee caps on arthritic finger joints, the result of rickets, and much more. And got an idea of what my own knee must have looked like.

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Now that sounds really interesting I would have loved that

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I'll try to get a photo of one the exhibition pieces but cannot promise anything as technology often evades me

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Hee hee. We could swap photos. Actually I think mine might be OTT even for this site

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my work is artistic interpretation and not actual copies of real bone so I should be ok I think if I can photograph it. Digital camera is kaput and my phone is ancient and haven't figured out how to use the camera on the laptop

We'll see its a mission fo today and gives me something to do furries are sleeping

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