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Suranne Jones, Mumsnet and Kids Leaving ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

Suranne Jones tells Chris about the return of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One's drama Doctor Foster and Mumsnet's Rowan Davies offers advice to parents whose kids are leaving home.

Suranne Jones tells Chris about the return of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One's gripping drama Doctor Foster, with tales of juggling parenthood with her BAFTA-winning role. Mumsnet's Rowan Davies offers advice to parents whose children have grown up and are leaving home, revealing the benefits of letting them flee the nest. Chris discovers your memories of pink and green custard, mashed potatoes served with an ice-cream scoop and semolina, after 5 year old Ruby shared her school-dinner experience on her first day at school. Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by the founder of Park Run, Paul Sinton-Hewitt. For today's Top Tenuous we ask for your claims to the fame of Mumsnet and Tuesday's Pause For Thought comes from writer and broadcaster Sarah Joseph.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Tue 5 Sep 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Hold On Tight

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Shania Twain

    Swingin' With My Eyes Closed

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    You Make My Dreams

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • The Divine Comedy

    National Express

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Pretenders

    Talk Of The Town

    • The Pretenders - The Singles.
    • WEA.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Elton John

    I'm Still Standing

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Steps

    Neon Blue

    • (CD Single).
    • Steps Music.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

    • Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
    • Domino.

  • Dawn

    Knock Three Times

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Liam Gallagher

    For What It's Worth

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Pat Benatar

    Love Is A Battlefield

    • The 80's Collection: 1984 (Various).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 10.

  • Keane

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

  • Judy Garland

    Get Happy

    • Musical Wonderland (Various Artists).
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Sheryl Crow

    Alone In The Dark

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 001.

  • Justin Timberlake

    What Goes Around...Comes Around

    • FutureSex / LoveSounds.
    • Jive.

  • The La’s

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

    Hollywood Nights

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Sheila & B. Devotion

    Spacer

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • The Beatles

    She's Leaving ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

    • Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
    • Apple.
    • 6.

  • Glen Campbell

    Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

    • Meet Glen Campbell.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • The Wandering Hearts

    Devil

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.

  • Matt Bianco

    Don't Blame It On That Girl

    • The Best Of Matt Bianco.
    • East West Records.

  • Van Morrison

    Transformation

    • Roll With The Punches.
    • Exile.
    • 001.

  • Chaka Khan

    I'm Every Woman

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Olly Murs

    Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

Sarah Joseph, editor of a Muslim lifestyle magazine

Β We holidayed in Wales last week--my husband, son, two daughters, and the dog.Β  We enjoyed a good few days doing nothing more than lounging around; my son flying his droneβ€”showing us the nearby sites without us even having to leave the garden.

But then we decided to be adventurous.Β This included a trip on two-wheeled, self-balancing scooters. I didn’t fall off. Yay! Go me!

Plus an assault-course 40 feet up in the trees, which included jumping from platforms and landing face first into cargo nets. But heh ho! I only sustained about twelve bruises!

The trip also included a walk in the forest.
The start was uneventful, although uphill and bumpy, and we all moaned.
After an hour, we decided to return home, but which way back? A series of turns had us deeper into the forest. We doubled back on ourselves. At one point we even followed the dogβ€”we reasoned that his decision making couldn’t be worse than ours.

Eventually, we got signal on the phone. But forest paths aren’t that clear on GPS, and we ended up in another dead-end. We were tired. It was hot. We’d run out of water and snacks a long time ago. The phone was showing us a path 500 metres ahead, but there was no way to it. We thought we’d weave through the deeper parts of the forest. BIG MISTAKE!

We ended up head high in brambles. My husband and son took turns to clear a path – smashing at the brambles with a stick. The rest of us took turns carrying the dog!
Four hours later, we scrambled up to a path. It was rough, and bumpy, the type of path we had moaned about earlier in the day, but now it was a beauty to behold.
It was another hour until we were back to where we started, but we had a sense of direction, and the relief was palpable.

A Muslim prayer asks God to β€œshow us the straight path”. Life doesn’t always gift us straight and easy pathways. We can be lost, surrounded by what can feel like no win options. But I believe by fighting our way through, we can get to a path, and even if it’s bumpy, it will hopefully be a joy to embrace.

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