I had great fun today helping out part of a really great project –    Nottinghamshire Loves Learning   . I was Robin Hood at Stapleford Town Hall, meeting, chatting and being photographed with some of the great adults and children who came to take part in the excellent photography and art project run there today.

Adults and children were lent digital cameras by the great helpers there from the WEA – the Worker's Education Association – including the wonderful Nikki, who I used to work with a couple of years ago, and they were free to photograph anything they wanted, then when they brought the photos back they were printed out and put on display in a shop window on the High Street (and they're stilll there, just next to the TSB if you're in the area)!

From the NLL website: February 13th – 15th 2010 will bring together the talents of Nottinghamshire as we inspire a whole county to try something new. Whoever you are, whatever you do we want you to take part and do something different this weekend. More than 100 venues across Nottinghamshire will host the fun and imaginative learning experiences – have a go! We already know how great learning can be!

For more details check out the rest of the website here.

Experience Nottingham city centre's hidden gems with Light Night 2010. Friday 12 February take to the streets with friends and family and discover a evening of spectacular events and illuminations for everyone to enjoy.

This will be Nottingham's third Light Night event and the city is getting ready to reveal some of the City's hidden gems with its theme of 'Hidden Spaces'.

Most of the events are FREE and look out for special offers in city centre restaurants, cafes and bars – and of course Nottingham Castle is involved too, so I hope to see you there! 

UPDATE: It was indeed a very fun night, all across Nottingham there were light displays, entertainments and music, and up at Nottingham Castle we had lasers, fabulous 'burning trees' and great fireworks dispays every hour – but it was incredibly cold and after a few hours I began to think the Sheriff may be right – living in the Castle is a lot more sensible than living in a forest sometimes!