Sarah Lord Taylor

But clay preserves that human touch in a way that I don't think anything else does.

And it's amazing.

This is a question we always get.

Could you address?

Well, I mean, the clay buckets certainly get like that.

It's the decomposition of organic material, essentially, which, yeah, they can be really stinky.

Oh, yes.

We did.

When he was very little, he was only five.

You're going to make me sing now.

We used to sing granddad's buckets of grime, granddad's buckets of grime, granddad's buckets of granddad's buckets of granddad's buckets of grime.

And he used to sing that every time he would go around because, yes, you'd have these stinky buckets of grime.

That even sounds...

Well, Graham has some trauma from that film, I believe.

Yeah, it's good luck.

The phallus with the wings and the little chicken legs, he's called Phasinus, and he is a good luck god.

He's a deity of good luck.

So people would wear, you know, a phallus around their neck, like a little glass penis, essentially.

I mean, the plaque that I make that says happiness lives here, but I can't remember the Latin, but that was above a bakery.

So when you went to get your bread in the morning in Pompeii, you would have a big penis on the above the door.