• I wish to thank you for letting people like me use the information you have on the endless glaze articles you do, for free. Without your information, I would never have progressed as a potter in Mozambique.

• On a small aside. I want to thank you for all the work you have done over the years, firstly to inspire people like myself to see the technical side of ceramics as such a beautiful side of the art and not just a finished result that was lucky. And on that note with how much I read your blog, waiting for daily posts, reading all the old articles again and again, I see your mugs with the wheat grass on them all time, and was wondering if you ever put them up for sale. It's been an icon of my learning and would love to have one of the infamous mugs themselves.

• Your website has been an irreplaceable formative resource for me in my ceramics career. It has helped shape my understanding of ceramic materials and glaze development. It has also been an invaluable resource in my teaching of ceramics technology. I regularly consult the site and I regularly invite my students to consult it because I feel that there is no other site with such scope in our domain. You have done work like no one else and I feel that people can and should learn a lot from you. The loss of this resource would really be tragic.

• I should mention beforehand that you, as well as Insight, have become the “go to” reference for all technical aspects of my work and those of other potters I know. It has become an invaluable resource. Congratulations on your academic approach to everything ceramic.

• I am a long time admirer of your ceramics data base and teach at ... University.