Its very exciting for us to be thinking about hosting a design course here again, they can pretty amazing expereinces for all concerend. Also just the prospect of having 25 or so people here staying here at the same time, all that energy. Now I know the name fo the first participant, someone who has volunteered here a couple of times previously, so someone we know already, but it leaves me wondering who else we will find. Choosing Late May as the time to hold it is deliberate not least becauseit is a time of mounting energy, long evenings, dewy cold nights as spring enters into summer.

It is into February now and although still wintery, the prospect of spring now looms. Emerging from the long tunnel of winter. I dont know if it wales especially that makes feel so aware of seasons, but it certainly a strong feeling. For a nation that celebrates the daffodil, that flower that best embodies the arrival of spring, it is obvious that seasonality has always been a strong flavour of Wales.