While looking back at pictures of your own face can cause intense anxiety, looking back at pictures of beautiful ceramics that turned out exactly how you wanted them to is much more enjoyable. Here’s a selection of our favourite photos when friend of Kettle, Pete, came into Alex’s Bow studio to capture the magic.

It looks a bit like Joan’s: lots of hanging baskets filled with fruit. Orange cast iron pots mounting a modest hob. It’s small, because you don’t need much space. Just clever storage – and lots on the counters. The counter tops are wooden but the draining board is porcelain and the sink is big and deep and there are two taps, not one, and I’ll never forget to buy the washing up liquid.