Graham Taylor

But until it's fired, it's infinitely recyclable.

You wet it down again, you use it again, you keep going.

And certainly our waste output from the workshop is minimal.

Our packing materials are now all sort of biodegradable, etc., etc.,

But it is that sort of realization of we've got to be as efficient as we possibly can be with the energy resources we're using.

And we're leaving something for the next generation that they want.

Well, for me, I got a phone call from Stonehenge about three years ago.

they were running an exhibition called Circles of Stone.

And what it was doing was comparing what was going on at Stonehenge at the time it was being built with what was going on in Japan in the Jomon period.

If you listeners don't know what they look like, go and look up Jomon, J-O-M-O-N, flame pots and be amazed because these were Neolithic people.

Apparently, we are told making cooking pots

And they are the most elaborate pieces you will ever see in your life, I think.

And Stonehenge was asking us to make a replica of the flame pots and some of the figurines, which Sarah did.

But the flame pot is the most brain-cracking, challenging, probably, piece that I've ever made.

And I loved it.

I absolutely loved it.

The only trouble is they take about a week to make.

And I won't be making an awful lot of them.

But

Again, it's going back to that, here we have somebody from the ancient past just really showing off.