About Potterypaul

Potterypaul is single and is seeking females for a serious relationship.

I'm a potter (I love ceramics - I collect / research and deal in antique ceramics, as well as having my own pottery studio).
I think deeply about everything.
I do not have a TV or any TV subscriptions - but I do like films.
I have a mobile phone but mostly only use it for the alarm clock and satnav.
I'm vegan (I've been vegetarian and then vegan for most of my life).
My car is old, but functions. I have no further interest in cars than that.
I have almost no interest in money (but I don't need yours and I don't care how much you do or don't earn).
I live alone in a large isolated C17th farmhouse.
I have a 1st Class BSc (Hons) combined degree (Business computer systems and Visual arts / Ceramics).
I have hundreds of tools and machines and I know how to use them. I love making things. I invent, design, create. I'm artistic but also technical. I'm a problem solver and a dreamer.

I have two daughters (both grown up) who don't live with me but we are in regular contact.
I have thousands of books (and I even read them!), but I sold off my collection of over 600 sci-fi books and hundreds of novels etc. so that I have more room for my ceramics books.
I do not have a criminal record (getting caught at ages 5 (burglary) and 10 (car theft) doesn't count).
I feel things very deeply and I cry when my heart is broken. But I am not a soft touch (I have a purple belt in Shotokan Karate). I stand up for myself and for others. I am nobody's master, I am nobody's servant - I am equal to anyone, high or low.
I dance alone because I am alone - but I dance the same even in company. I laugh out loud often - especially at myself (and my dancing).

I'm currently working on several research projects about antique ceramics. Also rebuilding my pottery studio... currently designing / making a silk-screen printing vaccum table... [update: now finished - it works beautifully and the studio is now live] etc. etc.
The ultimate goal is to find meaning in existence... and maybe even love? Maybe they are the same thing?

I value:
Honesty (this is extremely important, I'm painfully honest and I cannot live with or understand dishonesty).
Compassion.
Truth (the search for understanding and meaning).
Beauty.
And Pots, (I know, weird, but when I did an I Ching reading it answered that I was "the guardian of the sacred vessels" and it was spot on).

I spend a lot of time thinking about:
The meaning of existence. Why is there something, rather than nothing? (this may be the most important question we could ever ask).
And pots, I think about pots a lot.
I think about everything.

I really do not like religion (to put it mildly). But I am not an atheist - I just have a very deep distrust of all organised religion. I am rather an agnostic, because who am I to say that I know the absolute truth? I dislike the word spiritual because it so often is self-delusion and hypocrisy. I see the Dao / Tao / God in everything and nothing. I am often filled with wonder at existence / life / the 'universe' (multi-verse?).

A perfect day..
Could not be put into words.
And... it would be impossible to fit a museum visit, a walk in the hills, a walk in the woods, a fire on the beach, sex , a good book, boating across a lake, making a fantastic pot, having a picnic etc. etc. all into one day... or maybe not?

The most private thing I'm willing to admit:
I've had a very hard life. Seriously. And I've often been told that I should put my life story into a book.
I have, however, also had two years of professional therapy, which did wonders to overcome the damage. I embrace the world without fear. I am comfortable in myself. I'm far from perfect (very far), but I'm just as valid as you.

You should probably also know that...
My teeth are not great (I broke a front tooth whilst playing on a child's scooter... yes really) but nothing a dentist couldn't fix...
I'm extremely honest (but learning how to not offend - so my favourite example is when presented with a really ugly baby - I've learnt to say "aww he/she looks just like you"... which seems to keep everyone happy and my integrity intact).
I've never been unfaithful - I know, not very exciting, but true.
I love deeply, but I've been told that I'm not very good at showing it.
420 Friendly.

What I am looking for...
Somebody unique and beautiful.
A soul who is not confined in the empty vacuum of modern material life.
Somebody who doesn't spend all day watching TV / social media / mobile phones etc. and is not impressed by cars, money, fashion, celebrities etc. etc.
I would prefer to meet somebody who is not religious - regardless of whichever brand (though I do appreciate that some are much worse than others). I do not equate religion with being spiritual, and I see faith as a form of closed-mindedness or mental illness (or at least proof that you have never thought about it deeply enough) - so if you are religious then we would probably not work as a couple on a deep enough level.

I now realise that it will only work if you also do not eat animals (or at the very least are ready to stop)... I try not to judge people, but this is a value at the core of my being and I will never be happy in a relationship with somebody who has not taken what I believe to be a fundamental basic step in awareness and compassion (if you are unaware then watch 'Earthlings' and then 'Cowspiracy' and 'Seaspiracy').

Why I am vegan:
I became vegetarian at age 5 because I made the connection between living chickens and the dead bodies hanging in a butchers shop. I was vegetarian for 40 years before I went vegan about 11 years ago. If you have spent any time thinking about it at all, then I would hope that the ethical, environmental, and health reasons should be completely obvious. I don't talk about it unless asked or the issue is forced in my face.

I decided to put my age as 52 because my experience on other sites is that people put an arbitary cut-off age of 55 in their searches. I am 56. I apologise if this has wasted your time. In every other respect I am completely honest.

My Interests include:
Pottery / ceramics
antiques
museums
archaeology
vegan / vegetarian
photography
cycling
books
writing
board games
chess
juggling
karate
tools
inventing
teaching
art
camping
hill walking
entomology
reading
philosophy
computers
fossils
antique glass & bottles
printing (silk-screen printing etc.)