bear's busy brewery tour

there were lots and lots of people on the tour, which meant that bears had to stand on things to see what was going on.
this here is the main walkway between all the different places where mr shepherd and mr neame make their splendid beears. beers, sorry.
it's quite a victorian feat of engineering and jolly marellous too
love
bear
xxx

Nose to nose

The first stop on our tour of the Shepherd Neame brewery was through its offices to get to the brewery! On our way, we saw this delightful statue, which was given to Mr Shepherd Neame by the makers of Hürlimann Sternbräu, a lovely Swiss lager. Everyone on the tour was encouraged to pat its nose, so i did :)
thankfully, he didn't find it ticklish, not even flinching. in fact, he wooden go anywhere.

love
bear
xxx

Bear's big beer adventure!

Hello friends,
I hope you enjoyed your big bank holiday weekend. lovely weather we had, for once!
sorry i wasn't able to blog live as i'd hoped ... technology didn't work out as planned :(
still, i'm back and can now start to tell you all about my thrilling trip to Faversham, where i learnt all about beer... mmmm!
and not only did I learn about it, i even enjoyed some bear-sized beer glasses-full of lovely shepherd neame beers.

love
bear
xxx

bank holiday hopes :)

hello again friends
here we are trying to get a good drink from an old water pump.
we weren't successful - but we did admire the swans gliding gracefully by :)

we're about to head off on another mini-adventure. if the technology works out we might even be able to blog as we travel.

love
bear
xxx

300 posts and counting!

Hello friends,
I promised you something special for my 300th post and here it is ... a little trip down memory lane at some of the adventures so far.

There were the very cute birds in Israel - and these chicks too :)

the sheer indignity of being hung out to dry after a smelly adventure

teaching you how to make the bestest dish in the world - nutella biscuit sandwiches,
yum, yum, yum!

having some daredevil fun abseiling down a building (this even made the newspapers!)

a scary adventure with the Daleks (it's okay, I came back unexterminated!)

snacks on a mountain stroll, just to keep the energy levels up :)

brushing up on some Italian just in case the ticket inspector came along

and getting to meet some of the natives there too!


of course, i have plenty more adventures ahead of me, and this just looks back at a few scant adventures over the past few years.
look out for our next little adventure starting very soon!
love
bear
and small seal
xxxxxxxx

299th post! Out in the snow

here we are out in the snow! it was jolly exciting - and a little cold, so i wore my hat just in case my ears caught a chill.
it's a real shame that it didn't last. we went to church to celebrate easter and when we came out, all the snow had gone :(
no snow bears this year.

however, i'm now very excited that the next post will be my 300th! this blog has been running for nearly two years and my goodness, i've had a lot of fun.

look out for a very special blog post soon

love
bear
xxx

snowy mornings!

there's nothing more exciting
than waking up and pulling back the curtains
to discover that the world has gone white!
small seal and i were very pleased to see the white fluffy cold stuff
hurl out of the sky. so we watched
before ...

love
bear
xxx

It was snowing!

if there's one thing that excites a little bear a little more than nutella, it's seeing snow fall. big hopes of snow bears, igloos and snow angels!
so imagine my excitement when it started snowing on my little trek round St Ives. So exciting that I made small seal stop and take a picture of me.
but alas, you can't see the snow here. next time...

Where's bear?

hello friends,
we're back from our mini-adventure and will now report on it for you :)
first off, i thought you'd like to play my favourite game - where's bear?
it's quite an easy one this time as there weren't many places to hide, but i'm hiding somewhere.
a virtual bear hug for the winner

love
bear
xxx

Happy Easter everyone!

what does a bear like at easter? chocolate, and lots of it!
small seal and i are about to head off for a small spring expedition, leaving small dog in charge of the bear cave. we've left some bones around the house for him to find, so he won't be bored, and some water for him to slurp on. and if he's hungry, well i'm sure any burglars will suffice!

we hope you all have a wonderful easter, it's the most amazing time of year and we love it more that Christmas for what it really means :)

love
bear
xxx

curry king!

thought it was about time to try something different to nutella - haven't eaten much else for a while. so here i am nibbling away on a very nice curry. please note i have some table manners - no elbows on the table, no eating with my mouth open and certainly no eating with just paws. the spoon was just about big enough for my furryself to use :)
and very tasty it was too

love
bear
xxx

goodbye ikea, i knew you well :)

after a very long bear adventure (i started the snaps back in December!) it's time for home!
just to prove to you that we were there, here i am sitting on top of the bearsmobile so i can at least be in shot!
(the car is specially adapted to be run on lead-free nutella and the pedals brought up a bit to let me drive it. seeing over the steering wheel is a bit tricky though. just don't tell the dvla!

love
bear
xxx

IKEA-cream :)

Regular readers will remember that bears like chocolate. and ice cream.
so both in one handy sugar cone is always going to be a winner!
yes, this little bear managed to make it all the way through IKEA's showroom, past the checkouts and to the bistro at the end where this tasty little treat awaited him.
i decided to sit and contemplate its marvellousness before tucking in. and it was yummy!

love
bear
xxx

in the bear pit

one of the shocks at Ikea was seeing how cruelly they treat their bears. here i am trying to reassaure all these ickle ones that they're okay and they'll soon be taken to loving homes, just as i was one day. the poor ickle bears are all caged in like battery hens and rarely taken out to be given lovely bear hugs and spoonfuls of nutella. i took the opportunity to libearate three such bears and shared them with loving homes. i'm sure you could do the same when you next visit the store.
and i'm sure that mr ikea could provide better holding pens for these poor bears all cramped up with nowhere to stretch their paws.

love
bear
xxx

Coming out of hibearnation...

Hello friends,
my, it's been a looooong time since this bear was back on his blog.
small seal has been trying to wake me up for ages, but without success. i really, really, really needed a good, long snooze. in fact i was really taken by this bed in ikea that i settled down for a nap there and then. but that's not where i was snoozing, oh no. i was settled in a little bear cave, surrounded by some nutella just in case i got peckish and i snored for britain. and the world!
love
bear
xxx

it was a time for giving...

Happy new year everyone!we hope you had a brilliant Christmas time and enjoyed seeing in the new year with friends and family. here i am being given a present by small dog, who occasionally comes to see us. small seal got pilchards and i got some nutella!!! we're easy to please. but now it's cold and we're hoping that the following happens tomorrow...

love

bear
and
small seal xxx

Beary Christmas everyone!

Twas the night before the night before Christmas
And all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a mouse
the reason for this seasonal pause
was simply that bear had nutella on his paws
he'd eaten loads all in his special way
to empty the larder for the big day

hello again!
time for some special christmas blog entries to wish you all, my millions of fans across the blogosphere a very happy Christmas!
here i am pictured above enjoying a little chat with a polar bear. sadly he didn't want to share his bottle of pop, which was a disappointment.

and here i am below, climbing up a christmas tree. small seal took the picture before i'd had the chance to hide and play a festive where's bear with you. never mind, there's always next year!

i've not had much of a chance to blog this month as my computer has been naughty and played up. it's better now and that means i can blog to my furry heart's content :)
so i'll be back again before Christmas is out.

all that remains for me and small seal to do is to wish you a very

Happy Christmas!

love
bear and small seal
xxx xxx

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where's bear?

naughty bear doesn't want to his bed
so he's gone somewhere else instead
do you know where he can be?
will you tell, so all can see?

bears with bear

look at me, then look at the pattern.
i think i've found a likeness!

love
bear
xxx

Another day, another bed, another snooze!

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one of the greatest things about ikea is all the beds. everywhere!
for a bear like me who enjoys powernapping, it was very handy to put my paws up every five minutes or so.
the question is - can you find me?

love
bear
xxx