Email to friendThis could be great for the brain, the soul and, who knows, maybe the bank balance!! Here are 10 ideas and courses, which might get the grey matter ticking over…..
Join a writing workshop and unleash that book - the one we all have inside us www.writerscourses.co.uk or www.arvonfoundation.org
Learn about chocolate; eat chocolate turn chocolate into a moneymaker. Thorntons run fact finding weekends Visit www.thorntons.co.uk for details of their chocoholic weekends
If your nerves are up to it investigate the university –validated Relate course www.relate.org.uk for further details
Jewellery making in Hatton Garden, all manner of subjects covered at Holts www.rholt.co.uk
Cake decorating can make you a bob or two, just look at the lovely Jane Asher. Learn this fiddly skill at Squires Kitchen international school of cake decorating and sugarcraft www.squires-group.co.uk
Could you be a mad hatter? Rose Cory runs courses in South East London www.rosecory.co.uk or else visit www.thehatsite.com
Forget book clubs, knitting is the way forward. Relaxing, creative and therapeutic all for the cost of a ball of wool and a couple of knitting needles!! Learn from the in store sessions John Lewis run or else make for Rowan Yarns at some rural mill. www.knitrowan.com
Flowers are truly wonderful things. What could be better than learning to grow, cut, arrange and sell them? Courses are everywhere though you could investigate The Judith Blacklock flower school which is at www.judithblacklock.com Along the same theme the herb society runs sessions which sound great and herbs are one of natures special gifts for us!! More details www.herbsociety.co.uk
The V & A run art appreciation sessions. You can sign up for a year, a term, or just dip in and out on an ad hoc basis and meet some refined folk. .
Complimentary therapies are a great way of developing a new career. Massage, reflexology, reiki and yoga to name but a few The British Complementary Medicine Association ahs info on all this type of stuff www.bcma.co.uk
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