Eastnor Pottery, from whose Blog these photos are taken, run workshops for beginners and improvers at their studio on the Eastnor Castle estate, five minutes from Ledbury. Click on the photos to take you to their website. Run by ceramic artists Jon Williams and Sarah Monk , the courses can be very therapeutic and include tasters for individuals and families as well as longer sessions. You can even spend the weekend on one of their courses- and where better to stay than The Woodhouse Farm Cottages?!

Springtime at Hampton Court Castle and Gardens

http://www.disabledholidayinfo.org.uk

This is a good website which contains all sorts of useful information about holidays for the disabled.     A registered charity, it provides details on accommodation, attractions and activities for those confined to wheelchairs and people who have mobility problems. Clicking on the photograph above will bring you to a page called Viewing Hereford from a Wheelchair. There are a number of good places to visit mentioned, including the city itself, the Cathedral,  Chained Library and Mappa Mundi (with an excellent tactile/audio interactive exhibit), Waterworks Museum (excellent wheelchair access), Queenswood Arboretum and Country Park and our favourite, Hampton Court Castle and gardens. The photo above shows part of the garden in spring. Although we do not have specially adapted rooms for wheelchair users, we have accommodated a young man in a wheelchair, and we do cater for people with reduced mobility in Barn Croft, with two ground floor bedrooms (with en-suite shower rooms) and The Wainhouse which is a single storey building.

BBC2’s Escape to the Country was aired recently - the episode set in the Ledbury area, and we were somewhat relieved that we were not contacted by the BBC and did not appear in the programme, though we understand that Herefordshire’s very own vodka was included. However, we e-mailed Suzanne and Danny, the people about whom the programme was made, and they have told us that the broadcast was an abbreviated one for the 45 minute slot and during the summer a longer version of an hour will be shown, so perhaps we shall make that one!