“The optimal time of busyness and noisiness would probably be six o'clock in the morning on a May Day morning. That would be busy and noisy one way, because you'd have a lot of birds singing in these hedgerows, or the other optimum time would be autumn and winter, I think, when the tide is out and these mud flats are being used by lots of birds feeding, and that would be, you'd have lots of birds calling, you'd have curlews, you'd have oystercatchers, redshank, you'd have these big flocks of dunlin, sort of twisting in the sky and flashing their wings, you know, so they suddenly sort of shapeshift from one side to the other, and you get this flash of their wings, which they actually do to disorientate predators. 

That would be a spectacular time of year to come to Bedlams Bottom. But, you know, this is very peaceful. This has given us something, not pizzazz, but calmness which let’s face it is a very valuable commodity, like you could get something out of it any time of year, really. If you had a stressful day, and you'd come for a walk down here, and it felt like this, and this quiet, then you know, you'd, you'd come back better able to deal with life, I think.”