Focus on Constable country

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: TONY KELLY | Copyright information

It was rather like a mature version of Scout camp. We woke at 7.45 to the clatter of a "rising bell" downstairs before staggering across a car park to an outhouse bathroom. After breakfast of beans on toast, we stood around a long table making sandwiches, then gathered out of doors with the rucksacks and boots we had been reminded to bring. Later in the day we returned for tea and homemade cake.

I was staying at Flatford Mill on the River Stour in south Suffolk, one of 11 field centres...

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