Back to school

Definitely one of the things that has always kept us both mentally lively is learning new skills. We have spoken about our French lessons, and of course we have our favourite hobbies, like cooking, DIY, gardening and the like, but we also like to try different and new things.

With limited interaction, how do you learn new stuff in a lockdown? Late last year, those active followers of our blog will have seen we signed up for a Christmas wreath making class, which was not only really interesting, but it took us out foraging for supplies and finished with us having two beautiful wreaths to hang outside. We enjoyed it so much, we started looking for more online learning, and that’s when we found MasterClass.

The first thing that got us interested was an advert for a course by Gordon Ramsey (we know he divides the audience, but he really does know how to get amazing flavours from food). So we took a look and realised that within the ‘Masterclass’ offering there are literally hundreds of online video courses by all kinds of experts in all different fields; food, wine, photography, writing, music, negotiation and so much more. And what’s more, they are all available for the one price.

Don’t worry, I’m not getting paid for this, just can’t stop myself, and I have to say the content is fabulous, beautifully filmed, bitesize lessons and experts brimming with excitement to freely discuss what they love and know.

Brian’s already watched lessons on writing/reading and wine appreciation. His favourite take-away so far is a simple description of how one expert builds a 100 point ranking for his tastings.

Apparently the rest of the lesson described how these four areas were to be approached – he loves that kind of thing. Me I’m looking forward to putting the learnings into practice.

Most of all though, I’m really looking forward to trying some different cooking with experts from all over the world, and being inspired to try something new.

if you are interested, you can find them at MasterClass.com