BrightAire
@brightaire.bsky.social
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Outdoorser. Teacher. Educational Visits Champion. Tree-hugger. Bradfordian. Likes bikes and making stuff from sticks. Never satisfied.
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Done. Fairly happy with how it's turned out. My chip carving is pretty shonky (more practice needed) but it gives a nice effect. Painted with milk paint and finished with walnut oil.
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It's only as an adult that I came to understand, through play-work, that I had any capacity for art and creativity. It's brilliant that these kids are encouraged to think differently.
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Love it! Great creativity. The kids of North Newton Primary seem like fun guys...
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An alder tree blew down, in Storm Amy, in my local town centre last weekend.

The contractors said I could "take it all" so I took a few lumps.

The wood is now becoming all sorts of craft projects among me and my Yorkshire Spoon Club friends. I roughed out a little trinket bowl from it today.
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Phase one of my green-roofed shelter project, at work, has turned out brilliantly. The young people worked really well with our contractor to finish it.

It'll be a developing canvas for all sorts of projects - events, exhibitions and activities.

Now for phases two, three, four...
brightaire.bsky.social
Are you travelling with a haunted wardrobe?
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anonopin.bsky.social
While the Internet has had an impact, the main cause of the death of high streets is the out-of-town retail park. Any council which gave planning permission to a retail park only has themselves to blame for the destruction of their city centre.
brightaire.bsky.social
Do you think that tent pole's sturdy enough?
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Another crack at basket-weave kolrosing. The spoon is rowan. I used cinnamon and walnut oil for the staining.
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“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL GrantWatson
A barn owl is perched on a wall at dusk. A full moon has risen in the still blue sky above a small village.
brightaire.bsky.social
I fear you may have spoken in haste...

Stay dry.
brightaire.bsky.social
Lord knows how much the lawyers claimed, duking it out for about 4 months.
brightaire.bsky.social
One of the things about great writing is that it can expose universal and enduring truth. Sadly the prevalence of bigotry appears to be one of them.

On the other hand, Sheriff Heck Tate does seem to confirm that it's OK to punch a Nazi.
brightaire.bsky.social
Worn out road markings might have contributed to me being knocked off my bike earlier this year. My ancient bike was wrecked, along with my helmet and glasses. I suffered bumps, bruises and some minor inconvenience. Driver's insurance company paid out £25,000.
brightaire.bsky.social
A big alder tree blew down in my local town centre last night. The contractors said I could "take it all". It was a lovely tree, especially valuable in its setting, but now it'll be made into lovely crafts by me and my spoon club friends.
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Magic powers, I expect.
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Did a bit of "To Kill A Mockingbird" immersion the last two evenings. I read the book years ago and on Thursday evening saw the amazing Aaron Sorkin play at the Leeds Playhouse with my students. Last night I watched the film, for the first time, with my boy. It really is essential stuff.
brightaire.bsky.social
There is that and he does have skin in the game.
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A Kentuckian USMC vet and church pastor, living locally to me, griping about recent Archbishop of Canterbury appointment in my FB timeline this morning.
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thewaroncars.bsky.social
New episode up! We talked with researcher Tim Gill about how we need to make our cities safe for children, not cars. "Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy."
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Headshot of a smiling Tim Gill
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I'm repurposing a tree house, that my kids no longer play in, into a "dad craft refuge" at the bottom of my garden.

Using hand tools has been fun and rewarding*.

*also a bit knackering.
Mortise and tenon joint chopped into a couple of big pieces of pine. Array of hand tools. Forest axe, brace and auger bit, drawknife and gouge.
brightaire.bsky.social
Bradfordian here. Kruger is chatting tripe.
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Reform UK’s Danny Kruger is a liar, and is putting out dangerous language like this.

There’s no evidence supporting this.

Comments like this lead to at best division and at worst violence against Muslims.
brightaire.bsky.social
Thanks for the reminder that I should have left work about 45 minutes before I finally slung my hook. Mind you, I did jump on my push bike and pedalled to the pub.
brightaire.bsky.social
I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords.