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In tonight's premium bedtime story for kids, we're accompanying our friend Prickles the hedgehog on a school trip all the way to Aotearoa - New Zealand! Along with his friends Camo and Koko, he gets to do awesome activities, and learns that even though sleeping away from home can seem a little daunting, he's strong and brave, and can do it! Relax, get sleepy, and let's begin.
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Speaker 1: the supercast link in the show notes. Anyway, here's a
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Speaker 1: preview of this very special episode. Brickles, the Headshog, is
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Speaker 1: in his bedroom packing things into his backpack. He's already
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Speaker 1: added three sets of very warm socks, and thinking about
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Speaker 1: it now he adds a fourth, plus an extra hat
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Speaker 1: and two more scarves. Prickles isn't sure, but he suspects
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Speaker 1: that caves can get very cold indeed, and he isn't
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Speaker 1: taking any chances. It may be the height of summer
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Speaker 1: here in sleepy forests, with warm sunny days spent curling
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Speaker 1: up into a ball and rolling down the grassy slopes
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Speaker 1: racing his friends to the bottom. But where he's going
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Speaker 1: it is winter. Everything in life is balanced out, you see,
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Speaker 1: and that means when it's warm and sunny in the
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Speaker 1: top half of the world, the bottom half is much
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Speaker 1: much colder, and when summer arrives in the bottom half
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Speaker 1: the world, and the sunshine shifts down there for a while.
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Speaker 1: The top half gets a lot colder instead, and Prickles
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Speaker 1: is going to the other side of the world, all
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Speaker 1: the way around and all the way down, and it'll
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Speaker 1: be no more shorts and t shirts for him. It'll
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Speaker 1: be thick jumpers and Wellington boots and warming his paws
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Speaker 1: by the fireside. Prickles Is dad is a firm believer
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Speaker 1: in the motto there's no such thing as bad weather,
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Speaker 1: only bad clothing. And Prickles was brought up hearing this
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Speaker 1: line on every single rainy day, and every single time
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Speaker 1: he complained that, oh, it was too hot, much much
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Speaker 1: too hot. Over time, he's learnt that his dad is
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Speaker 1: probably right. On this last evening before he disappears, he
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Speaker 1: sits in the garden, leaning back into his red and
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Speaker 1: white striped deck chair and toasting a marshmallow on a fire.
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Speaker 1: The gooey white blob stark on to the end of
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Speaker 1: a very long stick. It's a wonderfully warm evening, though,
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Speaker 1: and the fire is more because it looks pretty than
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Speaker 1: because it's needed. So every now and then he trundles
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Speaker 1: inside and reaches into the freezer for an ice cube.
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Speaker 1: His mum has made some special ice cubes, each with
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Speaker 1: a whole cherry frozen inside, and when the ice is
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Speaker 1: quite melted away in his mouth, he gets this extra
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Speaker 1: special frozen sweetness rolling around his tongue. Melted marshmallows and
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Speaker 1: frozen cherries. Prickles is in heaven. What do they eat
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Speaker 1: in New Zealand? He suddenly asks his dad, worried that
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Speaker 1: it'll be something terribly different and he won't like it
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Speaker 1: at all. You'll be just fine, his dad reassures him.
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Speaker 1: They take a quick look on the internet and Prickles
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Speaker 1: sees it all seems quite familiar to him. Prickles likes
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Speaker 1: excitement in his life, but not on his plate. His
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Speaker 1: plate is a place of safety in the beginning, middle
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Speaker 1: and end of each day, something that he can look
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Speaker 1: forward to because it's familiar. He hears friends talking about
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Speaker 1: spices and exotic dishes, and he's the delicious smells that
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Speaker 1: come from their lunch boxes in school. But Prickles is
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Speaker 1: perfectly happy with his cheese sandwiches with a tomato. If
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Speaker 1: he's feeling adventurous. He finds it hard to sleep that night,
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Speaker 1: knowing there are so many firsts. The next day, the
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Speaker 1: first time he goes on a school trip, the first
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Speaker 1: time he'll fly with Albatross Airways, the first time he'll
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Speaker 1: leave the Northern Hemisphere and go all the way to
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Speaker 1: the Southern one instead. The first time he'll spend a
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Speaker 1: day many days without either his mum or his dad
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Speaker 1: by his side, but he knows he'll also have many bests,
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Speaker 1: many laughs, and wows and woes. His mom has given
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Speaker 1: him a sealed envelope for each day of the trip
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Speaker 1: while he's away, numbered from one to six, and he's
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Speaker 1: going to open them in order. She's also given him
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Speaker 1: six of his favorite chocolate bars, one for each day,
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Speaker 1: so he can have a little bit of home with him.
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