Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host.

Every week, I will read you an old story to help you relax,

but the stressful day behind you and drift off to sleep.

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Fancy a fever tree in a glass with ice and rum.

You thought I was going to say gin, didn't you?

But I'm talking about fever tree ginger beer,

made from three gingers for that perfect blend of freshness, sweetness and spiciness.

Delicious with rum, or on its own.

Fever Tree ginger beer, mix with the best.

Mmm, that spices things up.

Tonight. That spices things up. Tonight, I will be reading a short story by Susan Glasspole at twilight.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

A breeze from the main world without blew through the classroom,

and as it lifted his papers he had a curious sense of freshness and mustiness meeting.

He looked at the group of students before him, half-smiling of the way the breath of spring was teasing the hair of the girls sitting by the window.

Anna Lawrence was trying to pin hers back again, but May would have none of such decorum,

and only waited long enough for her to finish her work before joyously undoing it.

She caught the laughing, admiring eyes of a boy sitting across from her

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