Happy Birthday Faather! December 14, 2006
Sparkly shoes!
Originally uploaded by Jagosilver.
Today is my dad’s birthday, here’s Lily Peach dressed up in her party dress and sparkly shoes.
You can see his blog and website here:
"the coolest teapots in the world…" October 23, 2006
How cool is this, Neil Gaiman has again linked to my dad’s website, this time calling them the “coolest teapots in the world”, high praise indeed from such a literary luminary. He was also nice enough to order several teapots one of which is going to a Very Famous Illustrator……
Hi, Neil, this is a little off topic, but I thought it would be right up your alley. I am in England for the year studying abroad, and my fantasy-and-macabre-loving artist best friend has given me a mission: to find a teacup, and preferably also a saucer, to bring home to her. This comes with the disclaimer that the teacup and saucer have to be in the very least odd-looking. Do you know of any shops in Blighty or the rest of Britain that sell strange/wacky/interesting teacups? I would be most thankful for any help.
Well if it was teapots you wanted, I’d point you to the coolest teapots in the world, at http://www.andytitcomb.com/current/current.html. (Last time I linked there I crashed the site, though. So don’t all click on it at once.) If I wanted an odd teacup and saucer though I would probably poke around junk shops, or possibly just go to to ebay.co.uk and search for teacup.
Teapot Blogger September 2, 2006
Teapot Blogger
Originally uploaded by Jagosilver.
My dad featured in the Western Morning News because of his world renowned Teapot Blog as mentioned below. Here he is sitting on a chair I made whn I was about 12, holding my mum’s laptop, which he definitely doesn’t use to blog with….
My dad and his blog in The Western Morning News September 1, 2006
Andy Titcomb, 51, a potter based in the North Cornwall village of St Mabyn, has been making teapots since the late 1970s. Such is Mr Titcomb’s devotion to his craft, he set up a blog called Teapots, Teapots, Teapots in June last year.
“Being a teapot-maker, I wanted to help promote interest in teapots and no one else was doing it,” says the Exeter Art College graduate.
Recent posts on the colourful site include “dragon handle” teapots coming up for auction around the world, an unlikely “rocker on a motorbike” available on eBay for £36, and “The Ugliest Teapot in the World?” which features a battered silver teapot typically found at a church fete.
Mr Titcomb reckons the blog attracts as many as 300 readers a day, primarily from the US. On occasion there has been a bumper readership - a common feature when blogs are linked by counterparts that boast a premier league audience.
Mr Titcomb says: “My website was mentioned on author Neil Gaiman’s (science fiction and fantasy novelist) blog and I had more than 3,000 visitors to my site in a few hours. My Internet service provider took my website down because of the large volume of traffic.”Teapots, Teapots, Teapots is indicative of how simple the technology is.
Mr Titcomb says he read about the rise of blogging one day and set up his own forum the next. He posts new entries every day - and within 20 minutes he is back at the potter’s wheel.
