Suffolk to Notts...

Another one of those days.
Just after breakfast time this morning, I was wandering the streets of Lavenham in Suffolk. A bit dark these images (sorry)...

My car outside the Crooked House gallery...

 Mid-Suffolk has come out as one of the best places in the country to live, and passed through it en route to Hadleigh High School. Hadleigh not only holds a Secondary Geography Quality Mark, but it is also a geography 'Centre of Excellence' school.

I was there to say hello to the geography department, but also to start to explore what makes a really successful department really successful. More to come over the next few months on that. A pleasure to spend time with the students through the morning. Thanks also to Dale Banham.

Back through squalls, and it was a 'goose night'. From October through to February, there are tens of thousands of pink footed geese out on the Wash, who fly inland each day to feed. Some nights, their flightpath takes them over my house, and tonight was one of those nights: skein after skein of geese passing over in the dusk: a wonderful experience.

More bird related news was that the village where I live is in the area of North Norfolk coast which is being suggested as the site for the reintroduction of sea eagles from next summer. There's a meeting in the village hall later in the week which I'll go along to.

Later, it was a trip up in lashing rain to Nottinghamshire for another Travelodge night...

Read the latest issue of GEOGRAPHICAL magazine, which I picked up at the RGS last week. Special issue on TOURISM.