Hi Derek
We have kind of left Ian to his own devices on this (as of course we should do). Why don't you drop him a pm or an email and I'm sure he will elaborate.
Ian's father ran a natural stone retail outlet and Ian spent much of his younger days there learning his trade there. I guess if your heart is set on doing the training it might not be worth you going for that reason alone as I'm sure it will be a case of what is involved in the learning as opposed to the learning itself.
For what it's worth, there are a number of guys that want Ian to do a course which had in fact been pencilled in (me, Shaun, Ricky, Jason, Billy T etc.) but for other reasons we just could'nt all get together at the same time. If the Altec one does'nt look like a goer then perhaps we could sort some dates athe ccdo.
Pete