For the benefit of Mr Kite

Glass Master Joe "aka Mr Ferranti" limbers up for another tuesday night of maddness and mayhem.

Tuesday is a workng day for some

Swooping low over the countryside, Tess blinks her left eye, a grab line darts out of the Chinooks cargo door and nabs another sheep. "God almighty!", she mutters," these U.S. Marine flight helmets are bloody fantastic, yeeve just got to blink and you`ve got your sheep....

Sailsbury Plain...... A Ministry of Defence spokesman announced the suspension of all British Army training operations in the area until furher notice. Rumours are flying through the mess halls of a naked blue woman rampaging and pillaging through the Sailsbury area. All troops have been confined to barracks for their own safety and until the crisis abates........

"There must be bloody good money in sheep these days if she can afford the running costs of a Cobra Attack Helicopter, time for a corporate take over" Bill surmises to himself, as he reads the instruction manuale that came with the recently arrived Boeing Avenger Air Defence System, "Ebay is right fantastic!".......

"Right children, don`t forget, keep out of sight until the Cobra lands. She always crosses Bells Bridge. Group one will trail her from the Glasgow Science Centre and Group two will catch her in the nets as she comes off the bridge on the northern side. Good luck with tonights mission Chaps!
The children stare with deep intent at the chalkboard plan of tonights mission.
It looks some what like the design for a flower garden stained glass window.

Up at the allotment the two Michael twins are busily putting the final touches to the rocketship, that Michael the veggie hopes will take him and his family to the safety of the Vegatarius Star System. "I don`t know what we would have done without your engineering skills he proclaims to Michael the engineer. Are you sure you wont come with us."
" No, I`m much older than you and someone has got to stay and stop this pillaging of the countryside." He knows that later on this evening he is meeting someone who has just acquired a Boeing Avenger Air Defence System, "it might just help he thinks to himself.".................

Will everyone arrive safely for tonights glass class, lets wait and see!

Living the Life

I know! I know! What`s a refugee from Glasgow Detail doing on this site. Well I didn`t open the door



Stewart The Goth turned up at the last moment, with his latest concept.
Flushed with the success of his crash helmet made from supernarket polly bags, he has decided to replace his head with a living flame fire!
Rather fetching!

Don`t Walk Away Renee

Another evening over and its home and free for another week!



How is it possible to be this good looking, without wearing a beret?

Ain`t it funny how time drifts away

Glass Mistress Yvonne, showing how an akward cut is achieved, notice how interested everybody is!



Well! It was well after the end of the evening, so you are all forgiven!

On approaching a workbench.

It does absolutely no harm to indulge in a little bit of relaxing meditation, prior to approaching a glass workbench.



John is now near the end of cutting the glass for his panel and will begin leading and building it next week.

Choosing colour is important

No this is not the file room of some fancy law practice!



Elaine has given herself the unenviable task of rummaging through our extensive glass cullet boxes to find those little bits of glass that will be just right for her window.
But then you havn`t seen her design yet! Have you?

No Blood on the Tracks

I know!, where`s all the blood? Well we showed everybody the plaster that we keep for emergencies, and told them when they were finished with it, to give it a wash in case anyone else dared need it. So far it has stayed in its dinkey little wrapper, where it has happily live for many years!



Sheila and Renee have now reached the stage of final template cutting and will be on to creating and building their panels over the coming weeks. As you can see from their concentration they are still having immense fun. On the back wall is the sketch for the panel that Sheila will be creating.

Aren`t Eureka moments all the same

At long last Stephen had finally wrenched an original, and rather good, design from the murky depths of his soul. This is the same guy who turned up here thinking we were the Glasgow branch of Zen Meditation Inc. and just stayed muttering " I can`t draw, I know nothing about art" So watch this space, it should be rather interesting!

What are we going to do with you?

Nanette still pondering about a design, takes time out for a photo call!



Its going to have to be thumb screws and an iron maiden next week I think!

And the Wind cries Mary

Thursday evening started much the same way as it always does, oddley!
One of our two secondary side building benches, which are 6 x 8 feet and very heavy, decided to do a Sufi whirl around the main workshop. None of us at the time noticed it happening. It was only when I unloaded the camera that this image appeared. But I am left wondering "Is this a regular occurance?"
Rather supernatural, I think you will all agree.

Thursday, Thursday

I`ve got Georgia on my mind, Hurricane Sheila is about to blow in from the east.
The Wendy House is still standing, watch out for the News Flash!
I`m starting to get all fired up about a phoenix, will it be a pell mell night with humming birds dashing here and there. No! Because JC will turn up and calm us all down.
Cryptic or what!!!!!!!