Hello Pat, and thanks for the encouragement. I'll be firing this week, just waiting for some greenware to dry completely. I guess I should have introduced myself in the proper thread. So to all my Aussie friends, I say hello from here. I know a bunch of you guys for the bT chatroom, and I have a half dozen Australian bonsai friends on various Instant Messengers and skype.
I'm doing some oxide wash testing in this batch so I'll be sure to include some pictures, but I assure you potters out there, I am not here to release "the secrets of the bonsai potters" to the world

(because I don't know them)
I'll have pics to post this week