We called into the workshop and gallery of lamp-work glass artist Peter Minson on the way home. It's in a small town called Binalong, which is only about 1o kms this side of Galong coincidentally. Spike had taken one of his bead-making courses a few years back.We had a delightful, instructive couple of hours with Peter and his jewelry-making wife Lindsey Johnstone. We talked about glass, the biases of different schools, his family's history of making glass (his grandfather made the first neon sign in Australia), even Scotland (where they'd been visiting friends a month ago). Lindsey made us tea and coffee from her gallery cafe and wouldn't let us pay. I scoffed down one of her home-made Anzac biscuits, which was tasty enough to force me to re-appraise the humble oatmeal cake. So we bought one of Peter's 'signature' tea pots, which evened things out, I guess.
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