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Still Life Drawing

FULL PRICE £75 FOR 5 WEEK COURSE / £135 FOR 10 WEEK COURSE

Ten months after the first national lockdown, with schools across England once again closed due to the pandemic, it is clear that many students still do not have access to a computer, laptop or data. Here are some of the initiatives that have been launched, or re-launched, to tackle this as a matter of urgency.

BBC launches laptop donation campaign for home learning

New Year, New Flavours

Start the new year with some new skills and some fresh new flavours in your repertoire.  South East Asian dishes are fresh, fragrant and tasty. Chris Cardwell will tutor this flavoursome class, teaching you how to make:

• Yum Woon Sen – a refreshing Thai glass noodle Salad with fresh chopped vegetables, herbs and a zingy ginger lime dressing
• Bun Cha – grilled / fried pork that been marinated in caramel and fish sauce, served with rice noodles, mint coriander and basil.
• Lemongrass chicken – a quick fresh tasting stir fry chicken with lemongrass marinade

All levels of ability welcome.  Max class size 8 people.

Frenchic Furniture Painting

postponed

A great introduction to chalk paint using Frenchic environmentally friendly chalk and mineral paint. This is a full day workshop ideal for complete beginners and upwards. Frenchic Furniture Paint has no hidden nasties. It has also gone through rigorous testing to be certified for use on children’s toys (EN 71:3).

You will explore the different techniques of painting your furniture from preparation to finish. You will need to supply a small piece of furniture you wish to upcycle, such as a small table or bedside unit. Paint, waxes and brushes are provided, but we strongly recommend you wear clothes suitable for painting or overalls to protect your clothing.

Includes – Materials, tea, coffee and biscuits.

Terms – Fee is payable on booking. If, having booked, you cancel your booking, we are unable to offer a refund. However, you may nominate someone else to attend the workshop or class in your place by notifying us using the contact page on the Micklems Farm website.

Level: Beginner

Number of students: 10

Tutor: Keron Jordan

A Taste of Italy

Italian food is the ultimate social food, and what could be better than gathering a group of friends or family around the table for homemade Italian specialties. Join us for a day where we will teach you to prepare this Italian feast. We will prepare and cook some light and flavoursome recipes and dishes from pizza to homemade pasta and Italian bread.

Course includes:

• Arrive at 9.45am for tea and coffee and course introduction
• We will be making pasta, sauces and pesto, pizza, focaccia bread
• Italian treats made during the session can be enjoyed around our kitchen table along with an Italian wine or beer

To take home: All course notes and freshly made treats from the day including a pizza in a box ready to cook at home.

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

Other dates  available

A Taste of Italy

Italian food is the ultimate social food, and what could be better than gathering a group of friends or family around the table for homemade Italian specialties. Join us for a day where we will teach you to prepare this Italian feast. We will prepare and cook some light and flavoursome recipes and dishes from pizza to homemade pasta and Italian bread.

Course includes:

• Arrive at 9.45am for tea and coffee and course introduction
• We will be making pasta, sauces and pesto, pizza, focaccia bread
• Italian treats made during the session can be enjoyed around our kitchen table along with an Italian wine or beer

To take home: All course notes and freshly made treats from the day including a pizza in a box ready to cook at home.

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

Other dates  available

Fresh Pasta – Part I

Beef Wellington

Join us to create a classic dish that will soon become a firm favourite. This time it is beef wellington, made from scratch, with homemade puff pastry, perfectly cooked beef fillet and rich velvet red wine sauce. Finish the Evening off with your wellington, some fries and a glass of red wine around the kitchen table

Course includes

• Arrive at 5.45am for tea and coffee and course introduction
• We will be making puff pastry
• Cooking of the beef fillet to include time and temperature
• Make red wine sauce

To take home: All course notes and recipes

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

Decoupage Day

Online Italian Favourites with Jamie Oliver

Fish and Shellfish

Know what great fish looks like? We’ll show you how to identify quality fish, ensure you know what to buy, when and how you want it. This course will teach you preparation and cooking techniques of flat and round fish, shellfish and molluscs; ensuring maximum eating quality and flavour.

• Quality points to help purchase the freshest fish
• During the day you will make kedgeree, mackerel pate, fish cake, bisque, bouillabaisse and fish stock
• Cook and pick a whole crab
• Filleting variety of fish, boning and portioning
• Utilising the whole fish – stocks and sauces
• Shellfish preparation

Course includes:

• Arrival at 9.45am for tea and coffee and course introduction
• Enjoy lunch with some of the mornings dishes
• We will keep you refreshed with tea, coffee and mineral water throughout the day
• Finish course at 3pm with some of the day’s cooking to take home with you

To take away: Some of the food cooked on the day and all notes and recipes.

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

Beef Wellington

Join us to create a classic dish that will soon become a firm favourite. This time it is beef wellington, made from scratch, with homemade puff pastry, perfectly cooked beef fillet and rich velvet red wine sauce. Finish the Evening off with your wellington, some fries and a glass of red wine around the kitchen table

Course includes

• Arrive at 5.45am for tea and coffee and course introduction
• We will be making puff pastry
• Cooking of the beef fillet to include time and temperature
• Make red wine sauce

To take home: All course notes and recipes

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

Beautiful Breads

What’s Love Got To Do With It? New dates

Pet Portraits with Personality

Postponed

£75.00

Together we will work through a stage by stage process to create a Pet Portrait in Oils- using an ‘islands to oceans’ method of working.  We are aiming to make the eyes come alive and give the animal and your painting lots of personality! I hope to inspire you with some new ideas and techniques to take away with you and apply to your own work.

You will be working from your own image, either from an I-pad OR you can use a photograph at least 5” x 5”.  The animal’s eyes must be clear and in focus. Crop your image so that it is square.  The head of the animal should take up most of the frame. For good (free to use) reference images see www.pixabay.com The better the reference image – the better the painting!

Items to bring: A photograph of your animal or an image on an ipad / tablet. A black and white print out of your square cropped image as large as you can make it on an A4 piece of paper. A sharp pencil and a 30cm ruler. A selection of synthetic brushes to include some ‘short flat’ synthetic acrylic brushes.  I like to use – Daler Rowney System 3: short flat ¼”, ½”, ¾”.  Daler Rowney System 3 filbert size 2. Small round size 1 synthetic brush. Palette knives – Winsor and newton size 22 or similar. ‘Liquin’ painting medium. A flat mixing palette – paper palettes are fine. (£2 in ‘The Works’). A clean plastic takeaway box with a lid. An empty cereal box to take your work home in.

Acrylic colours as follows – Titanium White, Cerulean Blue, plus: Naples yellow if you are painting a white animal, Cadmium Orange if you are painting a brown animal, Quinacridone Red if you are painting a black animal. A good size jar for low odour thinners/white spirit substitute for cleaning your brushes, some rags or plenty of tissues to wipe brushes clean.

Oil colours as follows – Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium red, Alizarine Crimson, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, French Utramarine, Phthalo Blue.

If you’re trying oils for the first time- oil paint and medium can be supplied for use on the day at additional cost of £6.

Included on the day:

–        8” x 8” gessoboard and any other materials not specified for students to bring

–        Expert tuition

–        1 to 1 guidance

–        Detailed demonstrations

–        A selection of tea, freshly brewed coffee, biscuits and delicious cakes

And of course you take your wonderful creations from the day. If you share any photographs of your day here and/or your finished work, we’d love to see them so please tag us @micklemsfarmcreativeworkshops or use the hashtag #micklemsfarmcreativeworkshops.

Terms – Fee is payable on booking. If, having booked, you cancel your booking, we are unable to offer a refund. However, you may nominate someone else to attend the workshop or class in your place by notifying us using the contact page on the Micklems Farm website. We reserve the right to cancel a workshop up to 48 hours prior to the workshop date. We will only cancel due to insufficient places sold and you will be refunded the full amount paid.

Level: Beginner or intermediate

Number of students: 10

Curry Night

Learn robust techniques on Indian and Thai curry making. You will cook a variety of dishes to easily replicate at home. Techniques on marinating and alternative cooking methods will be covered in this course.

• How to cook fail-safe rice in the oven

• Dry rubs

• Wet marinades

• Thai curry with prawn

• Indian curry with chicken

• Aromatic salad

• Carrot bhaji

• Base sauces to take home

Course includes:

Arrive at 6pm for course introduction

Enjoy a supper made on the evening of curry and accompaniments, served with your choice of beer, wine or a soft drink

Leave at 9pm with your base sauce to make further curry at home

To take away: A base sauce made on the evening, and all notes and recipes from the evening.

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

Virtual Asian Cookery Class

£39

In this virtual cookery class you will have an introduction to Asian cuisine. Asian food is renowned for its wonderfully complex flavours, blending sour, sweet, salty, bitter, and spicy tastes to create a wealth of harmonious and mouth-watering dishes.

Learn how to cook from the comfort of your own home, led by a professional chef. Learn about the different spices used in Asian cuisines that give so many dishes their unique flavours, we will equip you with essential skills and knowledge you can build on. We will begin with a short and sweet version of our much-loved spice trail, which will educate you on the use of different Asian spices. You will then enjoy an interactive cookery demonstration and cook along learning 2 recipes to create a delicious meal!

Please note prices are per person/attendee and not per screen/household

Allergies and dietary requirements can also be catered for!

Menu:

• Sweet, Soy Chicken
• Prawn Cakes

Duration:

• 90 minutes

How it works

Before the class:

• Check your email for a booking confirmation (please also check your junk folder)
• A Zoom session invite with login credentials will be sent out 3 days before the class
• We will send you an Ingredients list with your booking confirmation, we advise you purchase the ingredients 2 days prior to the class
• We will also send out an equipment list with your booking confirmation

During the class:

• Cook along with the chef and follow step by step instructions
• We will stop at various points throughout the class to answer any questions you may have
• Mix and mingle with other participants after the class for an end of session Q+A

Meat Prep and Cookery

At The Woodspeen we believe that a good understanding of traditional butchery skills give the cook an advantage for getting the most out of each cut. Just as important as the skill to prep is the skill to cook and we will run through time and temperature to cook your meat perfect every time. From keeping your stews and casseroles tasty with the meat being moist and tender, we’ll be breaking down chicken, duck and cooking lamb and beef, explaining the cuts as we go along and the best cooking methods to use.

What the day covers

• Demonstrations and practical sessions butchering chicken, duck and cooking of lamb and beef
• Braising beef cheek
• Confit duck legs / slow cook the breast
• Stuffing a chicken leg, chicken kiev, chicken stock
• Cooking lamb rump
• Making your own black pudding
• Burger making

Course includes:

•Arrival at 9.15am for tea and coffee and course introduction

•Enjoy lunch with some of the mornings dishes

•We will keep you refreshed with tea, coffee and mineral water throughout the day

•Finish course at 3pm with some of the day’s cooking to take home with you

To take away: All notes and recipes. Food made from the day

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

Curry Night

Learn robust techniques on Indian and Thai curry making. You will cook a variety of dishes to easily replicate at home. Techniques on marinating and alternative cooking methods will be covered in this course.

• How to cook fail-safe rice in the oven

• Dry rubs

• Wet marinades

• Thai curry with prawn

• Indian curry with chicken

• Aromatic salad

• Carrot bhaji

• Base sauces to take home

Course includes:

Arrive at 6pm for course introduction

Enjoy a supper made on the evening of curry and accompaniments, served with your choice of beer, wine or a soft drink

Leave at 9pm with your base sauce to make further curry at home

To take away: A base sauce made on the evening, and all notes and recipes from the evening.

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

Talk: The Battles of Newbury

£5.00

Description

Wille and the bandits

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online booking is currently disabled for this event – please call 01635 244246 to check availability

Essentially Wille and the Bandits is a classic blues rock three piece much in the vein of Cream or The Jimi Hendrix experience. But in a similar way to how these bands pushed the genre in their time, Wille and the Bandits try to take their sound beyond what is expected of such a traditional line up.

The use of more bizarre instrumentation and eclectic influences in the song writing often pushes them more into a world music or progressive category. Having toured with artists such as Deep Purple through to the John Butler trio and played major festivals across Europe, the band seem to leave an equally astounding impression on audiences of all ages and musical backgrounds with their energetic and soulful performances.

They have received great critical acclaim, being voted in the top ten must see bands at Glastonbury 2014 by BBC Radio 1 and reaching number 2 in the UK blues chart with their first single on downloads alone. Now touring their third independently released studio album Wille and the Bandits fan base, repertoire of sounds,
styles and innovation seems to be growing at an exponential rate.

The band are praised in the press for their albums; bursting at the seams with textures, originality and soul. Rock legends such as Ian Paice, Joe Bonamassa and Francis Rossi have also praised the band’s musicianship and their unique edge to Rock and Blues.

“Wille is a suberb slide player, I love what these guys are doing” – Joe Bonamassa

If Cream had spent more time on a beach in Newquay they might have sounded like this.” – Blues Matters Magazine

Support comes from Troy Redfern.

Beginners Crochet

FULL PRICE £65 (PER SESSION)

Meat Prep and Cookery

At The Woodspeen we believe that a good understanding of traditional butchery skills give the cook an advantage for getting the most out of each cut. Just as important as the skill to prep is the skill to cook and we will run through time and temperature to cook your meat perfect every time. From keeping your stews and casseroles tasty with the meat being moist and tender, we’ll be breaking down chicken, duck and cooking lamb and beef, explaining the cuts as we go along and the best cooking methods to use.

What the day covers

• Demonstrations and practical sessions butchering chicken, duck and cooking of lamb and beef
• Braising beef cheek
• Confit duck legs / slow cook the breast
• Stuffing a chicken leg, chicken kiev, chicken stock
• Cooking lamb rump
• Making your own black pudding
• Burger making

Course includes:

•Arrival at 9.15am for tea and coffee and course introduction

•Enjoy lunch with some of the mornings dishes

•We will keep you refreshed with tea, coffee and mineral water throughout the day

•Finish course at 3pm with some of the day’s cooking to take home with you

To take away: All notes and recipes. Food made from the day

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.

The Perfect Concealed Zip – Fri 29th January at 10am

Precious Metal Clay Jewellery

postponed

£75.00

Precious metal clay has taken the jewellery world by storm! It is a fantastic material to work with as it has the versatility of clay and once fired it turns into 99.9% silver. We will look at designs you can create, either earrings or a pendant, then show you how to make a moulding compound which will be used to cast your chosen object or texture. The PMC is then pressed into the mould, fired with a torch and polished using a rotary polisher. Liver of sulphur may then be applied to enhance the texture/design. The pieces will then be finished – by forging silver ear wires and piercing the final piece to create earrings or creating a hanging bail for a pendant. You will be amazed at the results you will achieve!

Included on the day:

–        PMC for a pendant or earrings and all other materials

–        Expert tuition

–        1 to 1 guidance

–        Detailed demonstrations

–        A selection of tea, freshly brewed coffee, biscuits and delicious cakes

And of course you take your wonderful creations from the day. If you share any photographs of your day here and/or your finished work, we’d love to see them so please tag us @micklemsfarmcreativeworkshops or use the hashtag #micklemsfarmcreativeworkshops.

Terms – Fee is payable on booking. If, having booked, you cancel your booking, we are unable to offer a refund. However, you may nominate someone else to attend the workshop or class in your place by notifying us using the contact page on the Micklems Farm website. We reserve the right to cancel a workshop up to 48 hours prior to the workshop date. We will only cancel due to insufficient places sold and you will be refunded the full amount paid.

Level: Beginner

Number of students: 8

Curry Night

Learn robust techniques on Indian and Thai curry making. You will cook a variety of dishes to easily replicate at home. Techniques on marinating and alternative cooking methods will be covered in this course.

• How to cook fail-safe rice in the oven

• Dry rubs

• Wet marinades

• Thai curry with prawn

• Indian curry with chicken

• Aromatic salad

• Carrot bhaji

• Base sauces to take home

Course includes:

Arrive at 6pm for course introduction

Enjoy a supper made on the evening of curry and accompaniments, served with your choice of beer, wine or a soft drink

Leave at 9pm with your base sauce to make further curry at home

To take away: A base sauce made on the evening, and all notes and recipes from the evening.

Spaces for this course are subject to minimum number of participants.