Queen Elizabeth's gift-Saffron pot

[george wilson]

Derek,it was good to be able to concieve and execute my own design.The big problem always was lack of advance time on these special gifts. All of us were working 7 days a week plus evenings to get the job done.That isn't a lot of fun,and I would like to have been able to get the hardware silver plated,to go with the pot.

Just about every gift I ever was asked to make was at the last minute.I had as little as 3 days notice on some gifts. It is truly aggravating that the decision makers have no concept of how much effort things can take. Well,I don't have to put up with that anymore. There is another large entity that has kept asking me to make things,then,they keep changing their minds about it. I then just tell them to count me out. Think they'll ever learn? No.

[Charles Bodner]

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson