Welcome to bedtime stories for grown-ups, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicholai.

I read and write all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

No engineering is by Bob Witter-Shine.

Now is a particularly good time to follow us on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter.

We're going to be running a sweet little contest, and if you win you might find yourself and

some of your favorite cozy things in an upcoming episode of the podcast.

A beautiful book of our bedtime stories is coming out all over the world in a few months.

And in fact it's already out and available for sale in Germany.

It will have many of your favorite stories, along with 16 news stories that will only ever

appear in the book.

To learn more or to pre-order your copy, go to nothingmuchhappens.com.

Now let me say something about how this podcast works.

Busy minds need a place to rest, and if they don't get it they can run wild and race

all night.

The story I'm about to tell you is that resting spot.

I'll tell the story twice, and I'll go a little bit slower the second time through.

As you listen, use the sound of my voice and the details of the story.

To build up a world you can step into whenever you need relaxation and rest.

And if you find yourself awake again later in the night, you can listen again, or just

think back through any bits of the story that you can remember.

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