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In tonight's premium bedtime story for kids, we're meeting up with Frida again, on an adventure. She's using her magic paintbrush and transporting us allll the way back to the time when Dinosaurs roam the planet. Pretty exciting, hey? Relax, get sleepy, and let's begin!
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Speaker 1: preview of this very special episode. Over the months, Frieda
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Speaker 1: had become particularly skilled with her paintbrush, and, to her
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Speaker 1: mother's horror, a little lazy. Frieda has learned, for example,
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Speaker 1: that it's far easier to sit upstairs in the comfort
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Speaker 1: of her bedroom and simply paint a fresh loaf of
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Speaker 1: bread than it is to go downstairs and make one
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Speaker 1: if it's cold and raining. Rather than go outside to
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Speaker 1: feed the pony, she just paints food into their hay
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Speaker 1: NEETs and buckets, leaning out of the window and giving
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Speaker 1: them away even a smile. Freda has even discovered, and
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Speaker 1: this was something her teacher, Miss Pennifeather didn't realize for
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Speaker 1: many weeks, that if she just paints a picture of
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Speaker 1: a workbook and then neatly paints onto the cover finished homework,
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Speaker 1: she can bring it to life and have something to
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Speaker 1: hand in at school. When your marks go from decidedly
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Speaker 1: average to suddenly top of the class every single time,
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Speaker 1: people notice, it seems Freda's paintbrush was determined to make
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Speaker 1: sure Freda didn't become too lazy because it and it
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Speaker 1: alone tripped her up. It deliberately produced workbooks with handwriting
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Speaker 1: that changed every single time. It doesn't take an eagle
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Speaker 1: eyed teacher such as Miss Pennifeather long to realize what
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Speaker 1: was going on, but she bided her time and waited
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Speaker 1: to see how long Frieda thought she could get away
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Speaker 1: with it. Freda's mother had already been called into the
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Speaker 1: school once to talk about this problem of magic paintbrush
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Speaker 1: induced laziness, and it had resulted in the suggestion that
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Speaker 1: Freda go into the past. That had worked for a while,
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Speaker 1: providing an educational visit at the same time as making
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Speaker 1: use of her magic skills. Well after her mother had
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Speaker 1: been called into school again, Freda's paintbrush was promptly banned.
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Speaker 1: Her mother took it away and locked it in the safe.
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Speaker 1: Although Freda was doing better and better at the School
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Speaker 1: of Magic with or without the assistance of the paintbrush,
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Speaker 1: her mother was confident that she would never crack the safe,
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Speaker 1: which had been sealed with centuries of magic spells, and
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Speaker 1: she was absolutely right. Over the weeks and months that followed,
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Speaker 1: Frieda remembered what life was like before the paintbrush appeared.
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Speaker 1: Bella the pony did too, and actually found it quite
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Speaker 1: refreshing to plot back and forth between home and school
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Speaker 1: rather than getting dressed in all those dazzling colors and flying. Instead,
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Speaker 1: she found she had missed the hedgerows and dabbling her
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Speaker 1: hoofs in the cool waters of the stream, and she
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Speaker 1: once more said hello to her friends in the fields
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Speaker 1: and winnied a neigh does she pass by? The ponies
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Speaker 1: in the paddock back at home were glad to see
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Speaker 1: Bella back in normal horse form all the time, because,
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Speaker 1: although they'd become used to her spots and tail and
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Speaker 1: wings when she was in painter saurus mode, Bella was
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Speaker 1: a lot more fun when she was just a pony.
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Speaker 1: Nobody could roll in the mud as well as Bella.
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Speaker 1: Frieda remembered what it was like endlessly washing and brushing
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Speaker 1: and cleaning the little pony, and life soon returned to normal.
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Speaker 1: Normal life wasn't so very terrible, Frida decided, and the day,
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Speaker 1: her mother asked her to head over to the little
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Speaker 1: village of Lost to pick up some sugar to make
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Speaker 1: a pie, and Freda cheerfully jumped onto her bright red
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Speaker 1: bicycle and pedaled off down the lane without a single complaint.
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Speaker 1: Her mother knew she was cured. There were a lot
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Speaker 1: of discussions between Freda's parents, and they even visited the
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Speaker 1: school to chat with Miss Pennyfeather, and in the end,
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Speaker 1: they decided Freda should really only have access to the
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Speaker 1: paint brush for week ends and emergencies. They weren't quite
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Speaker 1: sure what emergencies entailed, but it felt like a sensible
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