Grumblegut and the Shadow Cloud: Face the Sun! ☀️

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4.2 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Based on the beautiful Maori proverb: "Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you." Grumblegut the Ogre wants to be an artist! 🎨 He’s trading smashing for stone-carving, trying to create a masterpiece. But when his hand slips and he ruins the nose of his statue, Grumblegut gets grobblesome angry! He starts seeing only his mistakes—uneven ears, wobbly chins, and "chicken-dragons." 🐉 Suddenly, a strange thing happens: a dark, grumpy rain cloud appears right o...

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0:00.0	Hey there, BKFK listeners.
0:03.4	Coming up in this episode, Grumblegut is angry with himself.
0:08.1	I am just a fumble-fisted ogre under a hopeless cloud.
0:13.2	The storm cloud follows him until his friends come to the rescue.
0:16.8	The storm is bad luck. The storm is you.
0:25.3	Today's story is based on a beautiful Maori proverb that says, turn your face towards the sun and the shadows fall behind you. We all have days where we make
0:33.0	mistakes. Maybe you draw a picture and it looks messy or you trip and fall.
0:38.3	When we focus only on those mistakes, it feels like a dark cloud is following us.
0:44.3	We get grumpy and our days get worse, like staring at the shadows.
0:49.3	In this episode, Grumblegat the ogre learns that his anger is actually creating a storm.
0:55.0	He has to learn that if he turns his attention to the good things, the sun, the storm disappears and the shadows fall behind him.
1:04.0	It is a lesson about how finding the bright side can change your whole world.
1:09.0	The stars of this episode are...
1:11.6	Hi, my name is Hevanika.
1:13.6	I'm eight years old.
1:15.6	I live in the UK.
1:16.6	I like listening to BKFG,
1:19.6	spending time with my family,
1:20.6	doing Lego, arts and crafts and reading.
1:23.6	Hello.
1:24.6	My name is James.
1:25.6	I'm 12 years old.
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