One of the things those Roman soldiers of old did in their hibernaculum was to train. My equivalent is to learn.
I'm a member of the Women's Institute and the National Federation of Women's Institutes has a great learning hub. Anyone can do their courses but if you are a WI member, most courses are free. Most weeks I do at least one session and in the winter I do far more. yesterday I excelled myself and did two in one day.
The first was on odes by Keats. I've got to admit that my knowledge of Keats doesn't go much beyond "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". I can't say I will be buying myself a new book of poems as a result of listening to this talk but I certainly feel more interested and may check out a few more writings by Keats.
Yesterday evening I joined in the monthly drawing session. We are not talking detailed masterpieces here: it's more about getting a sheet of paper and your felt tip pens and doing a bit of mindfulness. I quite like the class as each of us is in our own homes. There's no comparison with anyone else, we each do our own thing with the instructor's help. Yesterday she had prepared a picture of part of a crab apple hedge for us to copy.
I am not a member of the WI and I didn't know that they run online courses. I have done several free Open University courses. They have a large selection and some only take an hour or so, although some are much longer.
ReplyDeleteThey're brilliant. Have you looked at https://www.futurelearn.com which is a portal for all sorts of learning, including the Open University?
DeleteThanks for sharing the learning links. I think we may be getting an SWI in the town where I live very soon-fingers crossed. I am a u3a member and they also have some online classes which are useful in the dark days of winter. Catriona
ReplyDeleteI often watch YouTube stuff as well, especially to learn quite specific things. I tried U3A and didn't get on with it, but I didn't know they had on-line stuff. (I tried virtual U3A unsuccessfully)
DeleteI've been looking at the U3A groups site and think I may be joining!
DeleteI really like the drawing you did. My daughter and I did some online painting tutorials a few years ago which we both enjoyed. I must suggest we do something like that, again. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteLately I have been using YouTube to learn new things. I would really like to learn how to spin, but think I might try a drop spindle first and then move on to a wheel of some type.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Go for it!
DeleteI like your sketch, the little fruits look like hearts.
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