“The first month frightened me more than the kiln did. There was no advance to fall back on, and no one to ask.”

Illustrative placeholder. This is where a participant's own account will sit, recorded on a visit and read back to them before anything is published.

Written stories work best at three or four short paragraphs, in the participant's own phrasing rather than tidied into ours. Keep the specifics that matter and remove the ones that could identify a household to the wrong reader.