A Table of Delights ‘Whenever he saw dons in their black MA gowns at a formal dinner, his friend Matt’s description of them came immediately to mind. Minus their colourful crimson robes and hoods, they looked like a flock of crows which had struck lucky in the park and having alighted by chance at an enormous oak picnic table, were engaged in pecking at the food before the guests arrived to shoo them away.’ Sir Geoffrey Faber The Oxford Apostles. The HWF is rather like a picnic table, with all sorts of delights to savour and explore, and to which we are invited to add our contributions for others to sample, when we have the time and the inclination to so. We have ‘struck lucky’ to find it, but no-one ever shoos us away - quite the opposite. The best thing about it is how much encouragement we are all given to stay and add to the riches on offer - that and the enjoyment in reading the many fine contributions from the student members, whose enthusiasm and commitment I saw for myself at one of Lucy and Peter’s workshops Jamie Whelan
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