At 7pm, the lesson started with Anthony introducing himself, describing the room and the course. The learners then each went through what they wanted from the course and how much previous experience of woodworking they had. Fortunately, like me, most people had pretty much none. There were 9 fellow learners, and we watched as Anthony gave us a demonstration of making a half-lap joint in a piece of wood. It looked simple, but with time running out Anthony had to resort to a half half-lap. After a short descripton of woods we were given our own piece of wood, got out the equipment and had a go for ourselves. Again time was short and I felt as though I was rushing, but still made a reasonably good lap, although it was too large for the cross-piece to fit in it. Oh well. 9pm the lesson ended.