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🗓️ 6 August 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Goop Tales, Episode 1, Gabblia and the Turkish fairy chimneys. |
0:13.0 | I'm Maria Kalanchini, and I'm the author of Goop Tales. |
0:18.0 | And I'm so excited you're here because this is the very first episode, |
0:22.9 | and there will be one every single week hereafter. So who are the goops? The goops are little |
0:30.7 | characters that were created in 1904 by Gillette Burgess, and each character is named after the naughty habit or character trait of a child and sometimes adults. |
0:45.3 | And today's character story is based around Gablia. |
0:50.4 | And she's called Gablia, because she talks, send talks, when no one wants to listen. |
0:59.1 | So little Gablia is just a delightful little goop, but she's got this talking thing going on. |
1:05.8 | And in today's story, she ends up going to Turkey and seeing the fairy chimneys, and she gets herself into a bit |
1:16.5 | of a situation with the rock dwellers. So you're going to have to listen to the story and find out |
1:23.2 | what happens. And at the end of the story, I'm going to tell you how you can see all the photos that go |
1:30.9 | with this story. And these are all real photos of real places in Turkey. So you're going to get to |
1:37.2 | see those at the end. And you also can look for a tiny gablia hidden in each photo. |
1:45.1 | And I'm also going to invite you to ignite your own imagination and download the first half |
1:54.0 | of this story and then write the second half and get Gablia out of her situation. |
2:00.4 | And you will be able to submit it for publication |
2:03.3 | online at goophtales.com. So stay tuned for all that information, and I will see you on the other side. |
2:14.2 | Goop Tales, episode one, Gablia and the Turkish Fairy Chimneys. |
2:22.0 | I'm sure you all know Gablia well. Her virtues then, I need not tell. In praise of her, |
2:30.1 | it might be said. She was exceedingly well-bred. Well-bred she was, yet talked too much. I think you may |
2:40.5 | have heard of such. Chapter 1. Once upon a time, there was a very well-bred and charming young |
2:49.5 | goop girl named Gablia. She always wanted to make |
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