This truly was a multi national course! Two ladies from Germany and a gentleman from Brazil - oh and Jim from Birmingham!! Four students for the Improvers Course and six for the Beginners Course.
As usual when Barry visits Hebden Bridge it was raining! Luckily I'd taken the precaution of buying a tunnel canopy for our course tent which was a God send as we spent quite a lot of time sheltering in there!
I'd like to title this photo - "Is it an ass or is it a horse" - you decide!
The photo's don't do justice to the amount of rain we had!
This is Jalda from Hannover contemplating walling over a hot cup of coffee.
We had a terrific meal on Saturday night where 13 of us sat down at the Olive Branch in Hebden Bridge. Oyuz and his staff served us with some brilliant special meals which were delicious. I'd thoroughly recommend a visit to the Olive Branch if you're in Hebden Bridge and tell them Les from Hadrian's Dry Stone Walls sent you!
We also had a look around the local pubs and the Hole Int Wall was great with live music and a good atmosphere.
This is Gui from Brazil suitably dressed for a British summer!
Suzi, originally from Nuremberg is seen here shaping stone to fit in the wall.
Another fantastic course and a couple of good nights out with some truly great people. Thank you to all the students on the course, Ann and John for accommodating us all at Riverdene House which was wonderful, Helen and Phil for letting us onto their land, the staff of the New Delight Colden for keeping us refreshed and Oyez and staff at the Olive Branch. Nearly forgot to say a big thank you to my co-instructor Barry Heeley!!
L to R: Barry, Joanne, Susi, Jalda, Gui, Gary, Jim, Roy, Matthew and yours truly (Justin and Jacob not in the picture)
And to finish off, a couple of video clips of the course in progress
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