Wow thank you all for the wonderful responses! I guess I'll have to weigh up whether quality of training or 'pastoral' (does it come under that?!) matters more and thanks Porthesia I may drop in for a lesson to try - I never even considered that...! Primrose, I often go into Bristol so maybe I'll look at doing some classes there before trying for LRBS to get a better feel for the Russian style...
Thank you all so much! Very interesting to hear so many points of view on it! Guess I'll just see what happens !