Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep
Spring at the Allotment (Encore)
03 Apr 2025
Originally Aired: April 22, 2019 (Season 3, Episode 7) Our story tonight is called Spring at the Allotment, and it’s a story about setting up a garden of herbs and vegetables with a friend. It’s also about a picnic basket full of sandwiches, turning over the soil with your hands, and the pleasure of sewing seeds in neat rows on a bright sunny day. Subscribe to our Premium channel. The first month is on us. 💙 Go to cymbiotika.com/nothingmuch for 20% off your order + free shipping. Visit our partner page to learn about the products featured in our ads. NMH merch, autographed books, and more! Listen to our daytime show, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, on your favorite podcast app. Join us tomorrow morning for a meditation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to Bedtime Stories for Everyone, in which nothing much happens. You feel good, and then you fall asleep. I'm Katherine Nicolai. I write and read all the stories you hear on Nothing Much Happens. Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim. We are bringing you an encore episode tonight, meaning that this story originally aired at some point in the past.
It could have been recorded with different equipment in a different location. And since I'm a person... and not a computer. I sometimes sound just slightly different, but the stories are always soothing and family-friendly, and our wishes for you are always deep rest and sweet dreams.
I have Waiting for You, a tried and true method for falling peacefully to sleep. I'll tell you a bedtime story in which nothing much happens. You'll listen and let your mind rest on my words and voice. And before we get much further, you'll be asleep. I'll tell the story twice, and the second time through will be a little bit slower.
If you wake later in the night, you could listen again or just think back through what you can remember of the story. We're doing a bit of brain training with this ritual, helping to make a habit of calm focus before bed. So each time you do it, it will become more natural and even more relaxing.
Our story tonight is called Spring at the Allotment, and it's a story about setting up a garden of herbs and vegetables with a friend. It's also about a picnic basket full of sandwiches, turning over the soil with your hands, and the pleasure of sowing seeds in neat rows on a bright, sunny day. Something I have gotten so much better at in the last few years is taking care of my body.
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Now, it's time to switch off the light and set aside anything you've been looking at. We're getting ready to sleep, so settle yourself into the most comfortable position you can find. Draw the comforter up over your shoulder and feel the softness of the sheets at your skin. Sometimes it even helps to simply say to yourself, I'm about to fall asleep and I'll sleep deeply all night.
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