There are still spaces on:

9 - 16 JUNE 2007, GAY MEN'S WEEK, LAURIESTON HALL, SCOTLAND

For booking details and costs see:

http://www.edwardcarpentercommunity.org.uk/

Description:

This will be a traditional Gay Men's Week at Laurieston Hall with up to 55
places available, and as any early summer week's weather may prove too
inclement for many outdoor activities, the organisers intend to include an
additional component as a prototype activity with a view to it becoming the
subject of a themed week in the future, if successful.

Expect all the features you know and love, and as well as the workshops
traditionally offered and organised by members after arrival, we would like
to hold 'Skills Sharing' workshops. Here, members would
teach/demonstrate/share a variety of skills which they possess but others
don't, in an entertaining/fun/communal activity-based way. In fact, this is
not essentially different from the usual singing, circle dancing, T-shirt
painting, aromatherapy etc. workshops regularly offered.

The difference is the subject matter. Examples of skills that the writer
would like to learn: (a) successfully to iron a shirt without dropping the
thing or losing my temper, (b) the art of successful short-crust pastry
making (without ditto), (c) juggling with more than one ball, (d) bicycle
puncture mending without tears, (e) enhanced massage skills. There are many
more.

What the writer could offer: (a) bread making, (b) hedge laying, (c) the
fast route to foreign language learning (what your teacher never told you
but I can), (d) map reading for the nervous, (e) a new approach to Sudoku
(with maths and colours!).

These are examples to get you thinking, as most of us have myriad skills
that firstly we do not consider as skills, and secondly do not realise
others want.

Obviously, some will need prior organising and also prior consultation with
Laurieston Hall residents (for example, if a workshop needs a kitchen, that
may have logistical implications if the small one off 'flight deck' isn't
big enough, and if there is to be hedge-laying, we first need to be sure
there is an unkempt hedge to lay - and tools to lay it with). So the
organisers request prior notice of intention to run a Skills Sharing
workshop - at least where the above consultation needs apply.

Other than the above, come expecting a traditional GMW with all the familiar
features - and more. We are looking forward to seeing you there.