Last week saw the first time of teaching it to a full house of 10 guests and I am delighted to report that at the end of it there were 10 beautiful chairs and 10 happy and rightfully proud chair makers.
We did have to work on into the evening to keep on schedule which, although not ideal, was great for the group as a whole and everybody rose to the challange. Having said that, I am currently revising some details and processes so that on future courses everybody goes home on time!
We had four campers all week and the new woodland shower has proven a real hit - not to mention the evening sessions in the dining tent with guitars, singing and campfires etc - a real escape from everyday life for all concerned. I'd like to say well done to everyone and a heartfelt thanks too for the wonderful letters - they mean a great deal to us.
For one guest, Aaron Hewit (recently back from a tour in Afghanistan), this was the last of four consecutive courses with us. He made a fantastic chair as his finale, as this picture shows:
Aaron's lovely basset hound and camper van will be much missed as will Aaron himself. I do hope he'll be back in the not too distant future for another few days in the woods.
Tom Vaughan from Mastercrafts is here in the workshop now, working with me on refining this course and he'll be teaching on it when it's next run - which is next month. Personally I can't wait: the feeling of achievement really does seem to have affected everyone quite fundamentally.
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