Here’ a rather good photo of a corner of The Watermill sitting room, taken by Dana Dodge, who was a guest on one of our recent knitting courses.
Notice the bust of Aphrodite on the chest of drawers? Well, she was kidnapped by painting tutor Maggie Renner Hellman and placed in the walled garden as a subject for painting. (She’s back in the siting room now!)

Aphrodite kidnapped. A bust of the goddess, normally in the Watermill sitting room, placed artistically in the walled garden.
Other denizens in the garden include lots of bees, who particularly like the artichoke flowers. Here’s Dana’s picture of one of them.
And here’s the entrancing entrance to the mill.
Come and enjoy the mill inside and out yourself!
And don’t forget you’ve only another day or so to take advantage of our Early Early Bird offer.
We won’t be publishing details of our 2018 courses on our website until 1 September this year, but for those who want to book before that, our offer is: you can have a place on any of our 2018 creative courses at 2017 prices if you book before 1 September 2017. Please email me at bill@medialliance.net if you would like to reserve your place.
Here’s the list of courses so far:
28 Apr-5 May 2018 Painting course Paul Talbot-Greaves
5-12 May 2018 Knitting course Sarah Hazell
12-19 May 2018 Painting course to be arranged
19-26 May 2018 Painting course Maggie Renner Hellman
26 May-2 Jun 2018 Painting course Sandra Strohschein 1
2-9 Jun 2018 Painting course Sandra Strohschein 2
9-16 Jun 2018 Painting course Sarah Yeoman 1
16-23 Jun 2018 Painting course Sarah Yeoman 2
23-30 Jun 2018 Yoga course Dina Sheldon
7-14 Jul 2018 Painting course Terry Jarvis
14-21 Jul 2018 Knitting course Marie Wallin
18-25 Aug 2018 Private retreat
25 Aug-1 Sep 2018 Yoga course Claire Murphy
1-8 Sep 2018 Painting course Nel Whatmore and Rebecca Mendonça
8-15 Sep 2018 Painting course Mike Willdridge
15-22 Sep 2018 Painting course Claire Warner
22-29 Sep 2018 Writing course Jo Parfitt
29 Sep-6 Oct 2018 Knitting course Lisa Richardson
6-13 Oct 2018 Painting course Vicki Norman
13-20 Oct 2018 Painting course Tim Wilmot
Most artists, writers, knitting designers and yoga teachers have their own websites, so you can see what they do by Googling them!And if you want to see what we are doing in 2017, please go to www.watermill.net.
You can see details of our bedrooms and their 2017 prices at http://watermill.net/painting-holidays/painting-holidays-costs17.php. The costs for knitting, writing and yoga weeks are the same.
Be an extra-early Early Bird and spend a year dreaming of your Watermill holiday!