![]() ![]() It’s just that sometimes I’m too thick to recognise it – as my wife pointed out recently when I was chuntering irritably in a long line of traffic. For me, everywhere is a potential thin place. It’s when we stop hankering to be somewhere else, open ourselves to where we are, start living instead of anxiously spectating. I suspect most of us have such places, though perhaps thinness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder – one person’s thin place is another person’s thick one.īut actually, I reckon a thin place is really any place where we allow ourselves to be fully present – a coffee shop, the kitchen, a seat in the park, even a car stuck in traffic. We breathe again…feel beguiled and inspired by the wonder of life…find new and better perspectives on daily stuff that weighs us down. Being there, we feel we glimpse something beyond the sights and sounds – a different ‘existence’, God, however defined. Queens Wood is one of our thin places: a coppiced cathedral of birdsong, lofty boughs and wild flowers. Heaven and earth are but three feet apart, they’d say, and there are “thin” places where the distance is even less. The ancient Celts thought of heaven, not as a place far away in the sky, rather, as a form of parallel existence. We’ve watched sparrow hawks stalking prey, found a heron fishing in a quiet stream, spotted all three species of woodpecker – while, planes soared overhead, police sirens sounded in the distance. In winter we’ve delighted in the woods’ transformation into a magical snowy fairyland. On burning city summer days we’ve relished the cool shelter of the old oaks and the hornbeams. One of our favourite green haunts is Queens Wood in Highgate – 52 acres of ancient woodland wonderfully allowed to grow wild – where we’ve spent many pleasurable hours walking our beloved lurcher Woody…. Something that often shocks visitors to London is the amount of green space in the capital. And there's weather with Matt Taylor and a daily Pause For Thought from vicar Dave Tomlinson, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family! Show lessįrom Dave Tomlinson, writer and vicar at large: Mike also chats to former Great British cyclist Rob Hayles amidst an exciting Tour de France and superstar singing nurse-gone-viral Beth Porch joins us to serenade us with McFly's All About You. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners and more music than you can shake a glitterball at! Plus another listener tests their showbiz knowledge in The 5 Star Biz Quiz, for the chance to come and watch Friends Round Friday with John Thomson and Primal Scream.Īlong with Tina Daheley on news, Jules Lang on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Zoe and the team have the best start to your morning. Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! TV Presenter Matt Baker chats to Zoe about Countryfile Live and The One Show, and we quiz him on all things disco following our recent discovery of his early showbiz shenanigans in dancing group Disco Inferno. ![]()
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