“You only need to be one less than shite to stay in the competition,” says Keith Brymer Jones. The Great Pottery Throwdown judge and potter extraordinaire has challenged us to throw as many sake cups as we can, off the hump. I breathe a huge sigh of relief as I realise the pressure is off. This puts a whole new perspective on life and its challenges – it’s all about survival. Keith walks around from contestant to contestant, judging our sake cups and counting how many we’ve made. “You are all brilliant, you really are! But that is rubbish.” Plop, he flings another sake cup into the bucket of doom. I can see it’s going to be an interesting week.