"The setting is so spectacular that just being there was a welcome escape from day to day life indoors."
Julia Rapson

"Thank you so much for a great couple of days. I had a fantastic time and have been boring everyone with my whittling tales!"
Kate Langrish

"I was amazed and pleasantly surprised to be able to turn an old log into a bowl in less than two days. It's a long time since I did any woodwork, but I'm happy to have the bowl on the kitchen table full of fruit (and say I made it!). It was a relaxed 48 hour 'switch-off', in a stunning location, with enthusiastic and very knowledgeable staff. I had a great time and am actively recommending it to all my friends."
Jeremy Milton

"Thanks for such a fabulous two days. I really enjoyed it and I know that Dad did too."
Camilla Woodhouse

"Jack and Adrian so much enjoyed their day with you and Jack is constantly asking when he can come back and do some more. He is still badgering Adrian to make a pole lathe! You have a wonderful site and we are very envious! The whole day was really super - the situation, the cakes, the wine ..."
Maria Timperley

"A thoroughly enjoyable and relaxing experience in a delightful location. Work at your own pace on a project of your choice, with safe, patient, and expert tuition. Lunchtime catering is excellent and the end-of-course glass of wine rounds off the day nicely."
Richard Whincup

"A belated but sincere thank you for a wonderful two days in Dorset at the end of March (I cannot believe it was that long ago!). I had a very enjoyable time and I look forward to returning in the future for another course."
Edward Wolton

"I shall reccommend your course to all my Oz friends. What a sublime experience it was! And when we return in 12 months I shall be looking for that trug course ... Cheers"
Jock Taylor

"Thank you for putting on and hosting such a great course. Not only was it very interesting and useful, it was very therapeutic."
Andrew James

"Just a brief - albeit slightly late - line to say a huge thank you for the wood carving course the other week. Everything was superb, from the tuition through to the food, location,
company ..."
Jo Donovan

"Johnnie and Oliver really enjoyed their day with you last Saturday. Thanks very much, it was obviously really good fun."
Charlie Hemsley

"Thanks for the excellent course - really enjoyed it."    Pete Fairclough

"Thank you for such a very enjoyable course. I would thoroughly recommend it (and will) as a wonderful way of learning something new (or indeed extending one's talents) in a very delightful environment with two very knowledgeable and charming chaps. Everyone here waits with baited breath for the bowl to appear at my desk. Boo looked after us so well with such delicious food - please thank her so much."   Hester Page

"Thanks for the great wood carving experience. It was a fantastic few days."
Will Behenna

"We both loved the course, the setting, the company and the amazing food. The gentle pace of the two days was deceptive and it was astonishing what you managed to teach us and what we managed to produce in the time - thank you. "
Harriet Scott

"Just a quick message to thank you for a perfect two days in your woodland. I don't think my friends and colleagues quite understood why I was going on a green woodworking course ... but they have all sensed my enormous enthusiasm since I've been back and realize that it was a very special experience. Your care in setting up the space has really paid off, and it was so calming to work away in my own little bubble but then enjoy everyone's company when you finally managed to drag us away for a tea break! I hadn't realized that the wood would smell so good while it was being worked, or that the different parts of the bowl would feel so different through my hands ... or that the colours would change as the air reached the new surfaces - there were constant surprises!! You and James are so reassuring and really skilled at just being there keeping our bowls from calamity, or helping out to keep us on track (in time and shape!). You will have another returner on your list next spring! Thank you again - and all the very best for whatever direction your plans take over the next few months." Shelagh

"This is just a short email to thank you for a most enjoyable and instructive two day course. My only 'complaint' was that it wasn't long enough!"
Charles Gray

"Many thanks fo a fab couple of days. Meant to write sooner but got home and hit the ground running as it were. The two days ... so far out of my normal world ... were truly very calming and restorative, enormously enjoyable, fantastic food and charming surroundings. Quite perfect."
Julia Tucker

 

"What can I say - your course was the best birthday present I could ever have given Peter."
Zillah Dyason

"We are back home now after a wonderful trip to the UK, anchored perfectly by your course. We have only good things to say - being in the idyllic setting was holiday enough in itself, you and Mace were terrific teachers/hosts, and to learn new skills and be able produce our little bit and pieces was just so satisfying - they will bring back happy memories (and yes the suitcase full of chubby candle-sticks, cable-caddy, dibbers and letter-openers/daggers was extremely heavy to drag round the Outer Hebrides afterwards, but it was worth it!) We do hope to come back - ..."
Heather Gray

"Ru and I completely loved our day in the woods with you. As far as I could see it was perfect."
Binny Martin

"The course was excellent, I think that you have the balance just right. I have recommended it to everyone I know and will try to get back to do another course in the near future."
Gerard Kelly

"First, thanks to you and everyone else involved for the bowl carving course last week. I enjoyed it immensely and have returned home with a wooden bowl of which I am inordinately proud!"
Jeremy Gough