What is this hiding in the garden!

……you may well ask
When I was at College years back in from 1966-1969 (Edge Hill College) , I was taking Art Mains, along with my Education studies and English Literature
We had to do a subsidiary subject in Art, so I chose Pottery,
I was absolutely useless at throwing any pot on a wheel so used to “ create” things by hand.
Our brief for this one was to make something with attachments.
This was the ‘60’ s and all kinds of weird and wonderful art abounded,
As the family were going to a pottery party last Sunday afternoon for our granddaughter’s birthday, I told them that I used to make things when I was at College from clay.
They like watching the Great Pottery Throwdown on TV, So asked me if I’d ever made anything on a potter’s wheel.
I explained that I could start off by throwing down the clay on to the wheel and then begin to try and make it ‘grow’ into something which resembled a vase or a jug or anything else you care to mention. Only it would fly off every which way no matter how hard I tried!
Good job my main Art subject was Oil Painting,.
Someone in my year made a full beautiful coffee set to use when she got married. Alas, not my forté!
So here is the remains of the pot which is now half hidden in the garden.
When I had finished my College course and began to teach I was living at home. My dad placed the pot on a table at the foot of our stairs and invited people who visited or came to the house to comment on what they thought it could be!
So it became known as the Moon Pot, Very topical at the time given the first Moon landings,
And we came to live here several years after we were married, having spent nearly 8 years living and working some of that time in Portsmouth, until our first son was born there in 1976, I put it in the garden and grew crocuses in it,
As we have now been here for 44 years in May, it has become very weathered!
I’ve included a photo of me at College making it, and also the wonderful amazing surprise birthday cake, made by our friend Sharon, for my 70th birthday in 2018! (In extras)
Stephen had given her the photo so she could recreate it as a cake.
Our d-i-l asked if I could send her the photo to show the grandchildren.
So I sent her the three I’ve used in this blip.
How very young I looked then at 20 years old,