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

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

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

No engineering is by Bob Woodersheim.

People often tell me that they wish they could live in the village of nothing much.

And while I can't send you exact coordinates, I can offer you a few more places where you

may be able to find your way into the streets and shops and gardens.

My book, also called Nothing Much Happens, has beautiful illustrations, windows into the

world, as well as stories you'll never hear on the podcast.

It's available all over the world in lots of formats, so check your favorite bookseller.

You can also hear bonus episodes of NMH through our ad-free premium plus feed.

Learn more at nothingmuchappens.com.

Let me say a little about how to use this podcast.

Your brain needs a job to do, and without one, it will wander off and likely get into trouble.

The job we have for it is easy and such a pleasure.

I'll tell you a story.

In fact, I'll tell it twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

Your job is just to listen and pull the details of it around you like a blanket.

If you wake in the middle of the night, you could listen again, or just walk yourself

back through any part of it that you can remember.

This trains the brain over time to shift out of its wandering default mode, and into

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