Dreamy Cappuccino - Inspiring stories, musings, memoirs
Dreamy Cappuccino is where stories, musings and memoirs fill your cup with inspiration. Go on an adventure into the pipes with a mouse who makes incredible music and hear the wild stories of a bench who listens to everything. You may feel like you’re hanging upside down on a branch or on a planet you’ve never heard of before..All stories, musings and memoirs have been written and recorded by Anja Kersten, find out more about here on anjakersten.com. Her e-book ‘Inappropriate Colours, 12 story-delights for the whacky mind’ is available on all main retailers Amazon etc. The music has been especially composed for each story by Chelsea Edwardson, find out more on her website chelseaedwardson.com. And now it’s time to hit the reset button and for this hot, foamy cup of caffeine to take you on a journey into your imagination.It’s time to wake up and to go to dreamland!
Episodes
27 episodes
Mirat and Tschibidad, a peculiar friendship, part 3
After having met Mirat's dad by accident and finding out, that he trumpet roars like those lions, Tschibidad is on a mission to find Mirat, who apparently chirrups like a bird. He vows to not only find Mirat, but also to bring him back to his d...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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8:31
Mirat and Tschibidad, a peculiar friendship, part 2
Mirat, the lion who chirrups and his mom leave the clan and wonder towards the middle of the world all by themselves. Because no one else would have them. When Mirat's mom falls ill and grows weaker from day to day he looks lovingly after her. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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12:52
Mirat and Tschibidad, a peculiar friendship, part 1
Mirat, a trumpet lion is different to all the other lions in his clan. He isn't able to trumpet roar like all the other ones, but instead to his mom's dismay, chirrups like a bird. Soon, he stops to open his mouth altogether and grows silent. E...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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11:51
Eddy knows he has a right to live, like everyone else
Eddy knows, that his days are counted, since he's not working properly anymore. While he's lovingly ticking into Paula's ear, he's wondering whether she feels the same for him. Will she soon get rid of him, thinking he's outdated? He believ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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6:18
Where is the beginning?
Today on 21. of March is the official beginning of spring, but is it really? How do we define a beginning, when does it really start? When the baby has taken its first brith, when some flowers are showing up? Maybe life is not as defined with b...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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7:43
Cup of inspiration: fish come from heaven, right?
This story is in many ways so fitting to our times with our world having pretty much changed from one day to the other. The main character, Robin the seal has to go through something similar. He grows up in a seal sanctuary, where fish rain fro...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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13:29
Cup of inspiration: the cushion of love
The cushion of love is a poem about what happens when we allow ourselves to feel the fear until it's done and if we are lucky we have an unexpected cushion of love inside ourselves to fall back on to. The cushion of love, has been wri...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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5:06
Cup of inspiration: the mole, who thought to be a mole but wasn't
In this heartwarming story we encounter a mole, who's digging deep tunnels into the earth and decides to not move anymore. He's just siting and waiting, until... Until an angel appears and leads him out of the tunnels. To his surprise the angel...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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10:27
Cup of inspiration: I love ruins
This is a partly a memoir and a partly a musing. Years ago I encountered Dunboy Castle on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland, before it was rebuilt as a hotel. It was just a ruin surrounded by cows on a meadow. I love ruins, because they remi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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7:45
Cup of inspiration: the rainbow dragon, who looked like a dragonfly
There's barren land, that's black, bleak and burned, until the narrator finds a rose, asking for help. It's dying and now the adventure starts, because the only one who can help is the rainbow dragon, who looks like a dragon fly residing in the...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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10:21
Cup of inspiration: the star, which turned into a starfish
There's a star, that yearns to fall from the skies into the waters of the sea of life. With the power of his imagination, he makes something sheerly impossible become possible. This is a story about the power of surrender and what magic can hap...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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7:09
Cup of inspiration: 5 apples, 10 pieces of lumpsugar, cranberry jelly and a corer
This is a story about my beloved grandma, who was the queen of the food parcel. Usually she would sent me one of her famous stollen, but not this one time... It turned out to be a heartwarming surprise. What would I give to get another of her f...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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7:08
Cup of inspiration: Poem for now
This is a very recent poem, which has been written during lock down in Ireland, depicting Anja's personal experience with the situation; the fears and hopes we deal with in a time of great uncertainty. The question is: Can we create a better wo...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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6:36
Cup of inspiration: the grand union
Surrounded by splendour and grandiosity, they never compare themselves with their neighbours. They know who they are, they are the ones, who invite people in. Listen to this surreal little story and find out who they are. The grand union ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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5:18
Cup of inspiration: Albert & Emilia
Emilia wants change and Albert can't move, he's too set in his old ways. When Emilia starts to walk away into a new life, Albert has to make a choice, whether he's gonna come along or whether his principles are stronger than his love. Alber...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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7:15
Cup of inspiration: Maybe it is a troll hoover?
The question is: 'Are the extra terrestrials hoovering the trolls away without us noticing?' Mind you, most of us even don't notice trolls anymore... Which brings me to the next question are houses nervous systems affected by hoovering maniacs ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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12:44
Cup of Inspiration: the butterbee and the knot tree
There was a bee, that had specialised on butter instead of honey, hence butter bee. She loved butter and sometimes got quite drunk on it, if she wasn't careful. The meat eating plant fortunately had made her a special cloak, so that the butter ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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11:15
Cup of inspiration: the legendary nerve quarter
Maybe it was to be expected. Birds and chairs might have just too different personalities to live together. The crake and the duck were a couple and freshly in love, when they stumbled across the two empty chairs, twins, who had been abandoned ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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9:38
Cup of inspiration: the highly sensitive flat
There's a highly sensitive flat, which would prefer to live in California instead of damp Cornwall, England. But her narcissistic owner isn't interested in her needs, assuming she's as robust as himself. When the damp patch on the ceiling grows...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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13:53
Cup of inspiration: the art of backtalking
Backtalking is an art, talking behind someone else's back to be precise, gossiping, is an art! The backtalking specialist is telling you directly what you need to do to become an accomplished backtalker. There's many advantages to learning this...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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11:47
Cup of inspiration: the lost mouse in the heating
There's a very curious mouse, who walks into an old, abandoned heating, just for fun. To her dismay, she can't find the exit anymore. It's like an elaborate labyrinth. Time passes on with her being stuck in the same place, the heating. But the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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9:48
Cup of inspiration: the transmission bench
Great news, if you had enough of taking on responsibility in this life, there's a way out. You either walk through the corridor of the thousand doors, or you find the transmission bench. I know where it is. The opportunities are endless, you ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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7:40
Cup of inspiration: the snoring blueberry
In blueberry land everything looks the same and while all the other blueberries roll joyously around, there's one particular blueberry, that's not as happy as all the others. She wonders what's on the other side of the strictly guarded borders ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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14:44
Cup of inspiration: the secret meetings on the hill
The hornet hooverer saves people by hoovering hornets at events like weddings. The pasta measurer on the other hand decides at pasta making competitions, who gets a certificate or not and therefore is allowed to sell their freshly made pasta to...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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10:16
Cup of inspiration: when the frog wanted to steal the turtles shell
There's a turtle, that lives in the sea as well as on land, but mainly in the sea. One day, when things get too turbulent around her, she decides to go for a stroll on land. The turtle ventures further than she ever has before until she encount...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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14:45