BrightAire

A weblog about my life in and around the Aire Valley in Northern England and further afield. Expect outdoor activities, natural history, some photographs (also at My Flickr pages) and other things.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Graduation


Graduation, originally uploaded by clivenutton.

This is me very happy at graduating in my FdSc Wildlife and Countryside Conservation course at Beverley Minster at the weekend. Now ready to clean up Gotham City.

Sunday, November 01, 2009

What is it good for?


Airshard BW, originally uploaded by clivenutton.

Visited the Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester, today.

The brutal structure of the building matches that of its contents.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

The Wedding Planners

Since coming back from our holidays, we've been busy, with much of our time spent planning our wedding in March next year.

Here are some photographic highlights:

I assisted as an instructor on a young people's outdoor activities residential near Windermere.


Late summer spiders in our back yard were so big we gave this one a name. Meet Gerald.


We attended Leeds Carnival with friends. "Curry goat all de way"!


We visited Newcastle upon Tyne to plan some wedding arrangements.

I completed some teaching work for the RSPB at their Fairburn Ings reserve near Castleford. Great bridge they've got there.


I completed the Outdoor Adventure Group's "Seaquest" charity race again. Photo by Jenny Horne.

We visited Alnwick in Northumberland to make more wedding plans and made a trip to see the Chillingham wild cattle.

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Back from holidays

Just returned from 2 week's holidaying in the South West of England. We explored some classic English landscapes, wildlife and historic sites.

Here's the itinerary:
  • Wiltshire
Avebury, Silbury Hill and Stonehenge, Salisbury cathedral and chalk downs. Got close views of buzzards and found a slow worm.

Silbury Hill
  • Dorset
Cerne Abbas, Maiden Castle
Corfe Castle
The Jurassic Coast - Arne RSPB reserve, Durdle Door and Chesil Beach. Nine Kestrels in one spot near Abbotsbury.
Lyme Regis

Durdle Door
  • Devon
Dawlish and the Teign and Exe estuaries - buzzards mobbing a peregrine falcon
Dartmoor and Hay Tor - ponies, newts and ravens
  • Cornwall
The coast around Padstow, mackeral fishing, body boarding in the surf with my brother's family and Rick Stein's bistro.

Constantine Beach
  • Oxfordshire
Staying with friends on the way home - the Fosse way and Rollright stones.

Part of the King's Men group, Rollright stones

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Is that it?

Finished my Wildlife and Countryside FdSc course last week after 3 years of ups and downs.

Here's a picture of us all. Relieved at having completed.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Bamburgh Castle


Bamburgh Castle, originally uploaded by clivenutton.

We had a return trip to Northumberland over Easter to look at some possible wedding venues. However, this one wasn't available!

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

That London


British Museum roof, originally uploaded by clivenutton.

Went to the capital at the weekend for a friend's birthday and also a visit to the British Museum.