I had thought that I would be on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning - but experience shows that you can't count a Today Prog interview until it's broadcast. The democratic future of the people of Egypt really is more important than whether we get a Forest and Wildlife Service which can deliver a better future for our forests. But I will come back to that idea on Monday. And just in passing, I wonder what Mubarak would have thought of the Public Bodies Bill?
Yesterday there was quite a lot of pick up on yesterday's blog about the fact that we don't think that charities would find it easy to pick up management of the New Forest - and that the RSPB isn't volunteering to do it.. This blog was picked up by the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star, BBC online and a large number of regional newspapers.
And yesterday's announcement on a delay to forest sales is in the Guardian, BBC online, the Mirror and elsewhere.
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
Not quite sure what the sequence of events was but it recalled 'burying bad news' - late on a Friday with far more important things going on.
Mubarak would have been wondering how it had taken us so long to catch up !