We do this article every so often to try and whet your appetite for something new. One's life can take the form of a washing machine, going round and round, with no time to rinse and dry out that brain of yours. Here, these courses offer you a moment to yourself, where one can try and add a string to what I imagine is an already overcrowded bow, but who wouldn't like to know more about ironwork, joinery or framing?

I'm not going to boast, but this might be THE place to fill your diary. Charlotte Becque, the steward of this list, has outdone herself. I know this because, while she was building this article and gathering each of these events together, our site continued to crash, something that happens when we pull together an article with such heft.

Charlotte Becque has provided us with a real smorgasbord of properties - all shapes, sizes, prices and levels of readiness. Some would be fine just as they are; you could move in tomorrow (if the English way of selling houses wasn't as painful as I imagine a trip to a Victorian dentist would be). Others, well, they are going to need some of your ingenuity, perhaps your handiwork, and almost definitely your money.