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  1. Relistening to For Flux Sake podcast and there's this constant mentioning (obviously) of cones instead of actual degrees in Celsius OR Fahrenheit.

    Anyway, question to all potters out there:

    Are we sure they speak Orton cones? When I learnt ceramics (the era of dinosaurs walking the planet) I was taught that there are TWO different producers of cones that are as common as the other with totally different degrees...

    Boosts/answers: ❤️💮❤️
    #ceramics #Orton #everydayartist

  2. I'm watching a Dennis Potter play from 1966 that was broadcast live (on YouTube). I have an affinity with mid century outcast drama that I assume is because of queerness and autism.
    #potter #orton # someone else I thought of before but can't now recall.

  3. I'm watching a Dennis Potter play from 1966 that was broadcast live (on YouTube). I have an affinity with mid century outcast drama that I assume is because of queerness and autism.
    #potter #orton # someone else I thought of before but can't now recall.

  4. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ Tichborne case ✧

    The Tichborne case concerned the claim by an individual known as "the Claimant" (pictured) to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy and fortune. Roger Tichborne disappeared after a shipwreck in 1854; rumours later surfaced that he had survived and made his way to Australia. In 1866 a butcher called Thomas Castro from Wagga Wagg...

    #Tichborne #Orton #Claimant #Australia #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborn

  5. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ Tichborne case ✧

    The Tichborne case concerned the claim by an individual known as "the Claimant" (pictured) to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy and fortune. Roger Tichborne disappeared after a shipwreck in 1854; rumours later surfaced that he had survived and made his way to Australia. In 1866 a butcher called Thomas Castro from Wagga Wagg...

    #Tichborne #Orton #Claimant #Australia #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborn

  6. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ Tichborne case ✧

    The Tichborne case concerned the claim by an individual known as "the Claimant" (pictured) to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy and fortune. Roger Tichborne disappeared after a shipwreck in 1854; rumours later surfaced that he had survived and made his way to Australia. In 1866 a butcher called Thomas Castro from Wagga Wagg...

    #Tichborne #Orton #Claimant #Australia #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborn

  7. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ Tichborne case ✧

    The Tichborne case concerned the claim by an individual known as "the Claimant" (pictured) to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy and fortune. Roger Tichborne disappeared after a shipwreck in 1854; rumours later surfaced that he had survived and made his way to Australia. In 1866 a butcher called Thomas Castro from Wagga Wagg...

    #Tichborne #Orton #Claimant #Australia #England #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborn

  8. That last toot reminds of another random-ish hashtag that belongs with my #introduction, I guess.

    I've been moderately obsessed with #JoeOrton since my teens. A Cambridge friend, who decided he couldn't introduce me as being from my extremely right-wing posh boys' college, used instead to say 'This is Paul, the #Orton Scholar of the University'