In tonight’s premium bedtime story for kids, we meet a cat named Diesel, who is startled by a new addition to the household – a beeping, buzzing, flashing, vaccum-cleaning robot! Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: preview of this very special episode. The quiet villages of
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Speaker 1: Lower Starry Skies and Upper Starry Skies are wrapped up
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Speaker 1: in winter. It gets dark early in the day, so
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Speaker 1: by four in the afternoon people are starting to draw
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Speaker 1: their curtains and light their fires. The street lights barely
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Speaker 1: have time to go out before they need to come
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Speaker 1: on again. Even on those crisp days when frost makes
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Speaker 1: the grounds crunch and there isn't a cloud in the
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Speaker 1: clear blue sky, it still gets dark just as children
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Speaker 1: are getting home from school today. It's one of those
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Speaker 1: cold days of winter, though, with an icy wind whipping
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Speaker 1: and winding its way up the high street and reaching
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Speaker 1: into all the corners of all the alleys. There's a
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Speaker 1: cat walking his way home. He spent the last few
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Speaker 1: hours in a friend's garden, hiding in a soft, warm
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Speaker 1: den beneath the boughs of a wisteria that in summer
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Speaker 1: hangs heavy with purple flowers, but now, in the depths
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Speaker 1: of winter, stands bare and twisted against the wall. The
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Speaker 1: den is lined with mounds of moss, and the cat
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Speaker 1: was reluctant to leave, but he knows that soon his
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Speaker 1: owner will be expecting him to curl up on her knees.
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Speaker 1: And really, although he may never admit it to another cat,
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Speaker 1: this is his favorite time of day by far. She
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Speaker 1: often reads to him from whichever book she's buried her
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Speaker 1: nose in, so he is, all things considered a very
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Speaker 1: knowledgeable cat. Indeed, he lives behind the blue frontage and
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Speaker 1: the blue door of the little shop that stands in
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Speaker 1: the row of shops on the hill between Lower and
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Speaker 1: Upper Starry Skies. Where there's a wool, there's a way
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Speaker 1: has been very busy in recent weeks, with customers piling
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Speaker 1: in to stock up on wools so they can knit
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Speaker 1: the warmest, coziest hats and scarves, jumpers and gloves, rugs
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Speaker 1: and socks. The cat hurries a little as the cold
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Speaker 1: wind ruffles his fur. He walks quickly, pressing himself against
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Speaker 1: the walls, of the house, relieved at last to see
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Speaker 1: the soft light glowing above the blue door that to him,
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Speaker 1: says home as he bundles himself inside. Missus Woollingworth gives
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Speaker 1: a smile from behind the counter. I'll be with you soon, Diesel,
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Speaker 1: she calls after him as he heads up the stairs. Diesel,
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Speaker 1: It's an unexpected name, given that Diesel is such a
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Speaker 1: fluffy cat. You'd think Diesel would be the name of
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Speaker 1: a cat that looked like an oil slick. But cats
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Speaker 1: are funny creatures who will not be named anything other
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Speaker 1: than the name which they think is best. Missus Woollingworth
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Speaker 1: had tried all manner of names, trying desperately to make
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Speaker 1: something sensible like fluffball stick, but the cat had resolutely
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Speaker 1: ignored her efforts. She knew he had a name that
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Speaker 1: she just hadn't worked out yet, and so one evening
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Speaker 1: she decided to read through the dictionary until he acknowledged
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Speaker 1: his name. She'd worked her way all through the a's,
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Speaker 1: looking up hopefully when she came to name she particularly liked,
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Speaker 1: such as Apple and Arthur and Archie. Then she'd worked
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Speaker 1: her way through the bees, willing him to respond to
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Speaker 1: Bertie or Bob or Baltasar. By the time she reached
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Speaker 1: the seas, she was losing hope, trying out Cammermile and Charlie,
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Speaker 1: and confucious to see if any of those fitted. While
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Speaker 1: not seriously expecting any reply, Missus Woollingworth was running her
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Speaker 1: finger down the d's in the dictionary and allowed herself
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Speaker 1: a little chuckle. When she read aloud Diesel. The cat
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Speaker 1: leapt up and wrapped himself around her legs. Really said,
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Speaker 1: Missus Woollingworth, Diesel, but you're a fluffball. The cat jumped
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Speaker 1: onto her lap and buried his head into his paws. Diesel,
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Speaker 1: she repeated, and the cat began to purr, and thus
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Speaker 1: Missus Willingworth discovered that she had the only cat in
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Speaker 1: the world who was as fluffy as a pompom who
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Speaker 1: responded to the name Diesel. To other cats, he is
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Speaker 1: known as the King of Cats, a powerful, wise animal
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Speaker 1: who roams around with an air that sets him apart
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