Tonight, we’re heading back to the dimpled dumpling cafe, where Uma and her cat Delilah are deciding which combination of coffee and cake to choose as the next secret potion that unlocks another of Uma’s famous story times… They settle on apple juice and fairy cakes, and an unexpected guest soon orders exactly the right thing. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: preview of this very special episode. Uma over the Dimple
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Speaker 1: Dumpling Cafe is always the first to wake in the
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Speaker 1: village of Lower Starry Skies. She loves those early precious
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Speaker 1: moments when everyone else is still asleep and the world
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Speaker 1: belongs to the birth than the final twinkles of last
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Speaker 1: night's stars. Uma spent her first months quite alone in
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Speaker 1: her cottage, but she now has a co a cat
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Speaker 1: called Delilah, who moved in one day and appears to
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Speaker 1: have no intention of leaving. Uma had been adopted by
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Speaker 1: a cat in the way cats have of going about
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Speaker 1: such things, and she rather loved having someone to talk
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Speaker 1: to as she prepared the day's cakes in those early
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Speaker 1: hours of the morning. But first they walked together around
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Speaker 1: the garden looking for inspiration for both the cakes and
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Speaker 1: the day's magic formula. Even if whole days went by
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Speaker 1: and somebody didn't guess the drink in the cake. Uma
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Speaker 1: had matched that would lead to the telling of a story.
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Speaker 1: She was sure to change the combination each and every day.
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Speaker 1: Hanging from the branches of an old oak tree were
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Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of cups resting on saucers and teapots,
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Speaker 1: looking as if they were about to pour tea right
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Speaker 1: onto the ground. But rather than tea, these beautifully painted
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Speaker 1: china cups and teapots were filled to overflowing with seed
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Speaker 1: for the birds. It was these cups that gave Uma
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Speaker 1: the idea for today's magic formula, and she went inside
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Speaker 1: thinking about cupcakes covered in small mountains of frosting and
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Speaker 1: glistening with glitter and colored sprinkles. But kaz Uma was
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Speaker 1: reaching for the little paper cases for the cupcakes, she
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Speaker 1: saw a pile of even tinier cases right at the
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Speaker 1: back of the cupboard. She stretched out her arm and
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Speaker 1: with the very tips of her fingers, managed to pick
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Speaker 1: them up. They were covered in tiny rosebuds, and Uma
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Speaker 1: placed one on the palm of her hand, showing it
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Speaker 1: to Delilah. What do you think about fairy cakes to day?
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Speaker 1: She asked, and the cat rubbed her head against UMA's arm,
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Speaker 1: a sign that Umer took to mean the idea had
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Speaker 1: been met with approval. Fairy cake Cities, said Umer, thoughtfully,
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Speaker 1: turning over the story in her mind that she might
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Speaker 1: get to tell later that day. It was far and
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Speaker 1: away one of her favorites, not least because it took
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Speaker 1: her right back to her childhood and standing on a
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Speaker 1: chair stirring the mixture while her grandmother added gentle nods
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Speaker 1: of encouragement. Fairy cakes or little tiny cupcakes were the
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Speaker 1: very first thing Uma had ever made, and they led
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Speaker 1: to her love of baking. All those years ago. Back
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Speaker 1: home in India, they had added cinnamon and clothes, peppercorns
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Speaker 1: and nutmeg, cardamom and chai spices to the mix, But
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Speaker 1: today she would keep things simple, adding just a hint
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Speaker 1: of vanilla to the sugar and butter and flour and eggs.
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