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Yesterday evening, The Royal Oak in Brandon, Coventry was full. Not “reasonably busy for a Wednesday”—properly full. People were eating, drinking and talking. Friends and families arrived, dogs settled beneath the tables, and the whole pub felt alive. Across our tables, guests were learning how to make something from clay. It felt less like an ordinary midweek evening and more like a small community occasion. A pub becomes important because things happen there. A pub becomes

A few months ago, if someone had told me that a simple video of me glazing a ceramic plate would be watched by more than 150,000 people, I would have laughed. After all, it's just a plate. There are no dramatic before-and-after transformations. No complicated tutorials. No trending dances. No life-changing advice. Just a few seconds of glaze flowing over clay. Yet recently several of my short glazing videos have reached over 150,000 views. Some continue to climb long after I

Most people I meet in tech don’t say they’re stressed. They say they feel strangely disconnected. They spend their days building things that: - live in screens - can be undone, refreshed, or deleted; - never really exist in their hands. Highly skilled minds. Underused bodies. That imbalance is exhausting — even when you sit all day. Working with clay does something simple and powerful: it brings thinking back into the body. - Your hands slow the mind. - Your breath follows. -