As a bit of news-junkie, the thought of a morning without the Today Programme wasn't a great start.
But every cloud.
As I ran the bath I was faced with the delicate job of untangling the bathroom radio from its surrounding forest of shampoo bottles and tubes of stuff – but wait, what's this? The mournful trill of a curlew?
Saved.
The BBC were re-running a programme about The Wash – prosaically named 'The Estuary'. And there was Ciaran Nelson, back then in 2007, our man on the Wash waxing lyrical about one of our last great wildernesses.
Now news is all well and good – but 15 minutes of evocative nature programming is a pretty good way to start the day.
And as autumn fills the Wash and all our other estuaries with the tide of feathers sweeping down from the Arctic – why not make the most of this weekend and experience it for yourself. On the Wash you can visit our reserves at Snettisham and Freiston Shore – and while you are exploring that bit of our website you can find other fantastic places to visit.
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