The week, day by day.

Drop your bag in your bed space, then tea in the yard. Ruth gives a five-minute tour of the kilns and the washing line.

Everyone at one long table. Each person says what they came to make, and what they hope to stop doing for a week.

Thumb into a ball, press, turn. By lunch you will have three small bowls and a sore thumb. Bring: an apron you do not mind losing to clay.

Rolled ropes of clay, stacked and smoothed into a jug or a planter. Glazes are tested on tiles, and you choose one glaze for your piece.

Pencil and a small sketchbook along the farm track. Idris teaches you to look for the shapes between the leaves before you name the plant.

Transparent colour on cold-pressed paper: wet on wet, then glazes. You finish with two paintings and a list of the colours you mixed.

Mordant a cotton square, then dip it in madder and iron water. The colours change as they cool, which is the point. Wear old clothes.

Carve a simple block from lino, ink it and print a repeat pattern onto a tea towel. Your towel is dry and ready to take home on Friday.

Hang your work on the barn wall, read your sketchbook back and tidy the kilns. Friends and family are welcome to see the week from 2 pm.

Collect your bags and your pieces, which need a week in the kiln before they are ready. The shuttle leaves for the station at 4 pm.