They’re occurring thick and fast at the moment are these metal sculpture courses and we can’t call this a weekend one because it’s our first ever weekday one. We’ve slotted this extra one because we had three friends wanting a weekday one so it wasn’t too tricky to find a fourth student to complete the course. John had never welded before and came armed with loads of cutlery his wife gave him from the charity shop she works at and after making a giant bee which we all kept mistaking for a dragonfly went on to make an angler fish, finishing just in time to let it cool down and then pop in his car for the journey home. Steve came with no preconceived ideas and just wanted to see what happened and after finding a pair of cobblers lasts that resembled two legs and feet he went on to make a minion and a strange dog like creature as it’s companion. Mark started making a dog which looked very much like a dog, so much so in fact that he discarded the proposed beak and added a nose and some big ears. He then went on to make a bird which started off as a robin but ended up as a huge penguin – I don’t think we’ve anyone smile so much throughout one of our courses. Finally we had Ole (coming along for the second time) who wanted to make an owl that not only moved a bit in the wind but also had a rotating head. He methodically worked through the whole weekend then produced the finished owl at the last minute like some sort of magician. Thanks as ever to fellow professor Billy aka David Mayne who I run the courses with, our last three for this year are all booked up but if you want to go on our waiting list and get next years dates before they’re released to the general public, just drop me an email.