08 September 2005

The Stourbridge of Turkey


This area - Beykoz region - sounds like the parallel of Stourbridge. In the hot shop where we work are 6-7 factory workers churning out saleable objects - water jugs that look like hookahs, par exemple. When they finish the shift, they rinse out their T-shirts in the pipe-cooler and hang them to dry behind the big furnace. As in Brierley, there is a gaffer and his assistants. He can make a large jug without any reheats. In odd moments, the assistants pull cane.

I boxed 2 bottles and 2 baubles today - lots on the floor, but a good day because I understood something. Out to a resto en groupe in half an hour.

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