A Bear in a Tree
Julia’s Knitted Teddy Bear – a lockdown special
I can’t post a bear picture as a header because I’m incompetent. Julia sent me these two pictures but I can’t get them to load into the media file so I just dropped them into the text. It’s a fascinating study in how a bit of knitting, a few stitches and a bit of imagination ends up as a teddy bear with a distinct personality of its own.
She has posted these pictures on the Mencap Facebook page, so there’s a chance we might be seeing a few more of them about as lockdown progresses.
Sooty is one of the best known bears, and he has been helping charliecountryboy retain his sanity during the lockdown. I use the term ‘sanity’ in a fairly loose sense, as you will have realised if you’ve read his blog before.
One of my favourites is Pooh, the bear of very little brain, and an unfortunate name. We have a copy of The Pooh Cook Book upstairs. Julia bought it. I’ve never actually read it, as I suspect it isn’t really a cookery book, just going through the motions.
I’m fairly sure that the humour I see in the title was unintentional, unlike the next book, which has a confusingly similar title.
It is, however, quite different, being a book of Thai cooking compiled by a woman nick-named Poo. It apparently means ‘crab’ in Thai. She’s really called Saiyuud Diwong, but that wouldn’t sell as many books. Let’s face it, Cooking with Saiyud Diwong wouldn’t actually rate a mention here.
“For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.” A. A. Milne
Bear in a tree – again!
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I like the ‘Cooking with Poo’!
She looks like a nice, cheerful lady. 🙂
🙂
Long words bother me, too.
Indubitably!
The pictures didn’t work for me either so it is an international crisis.
I think it must be the way I loaded them from the email Julia sent. She says she can’t see them in the blog either.
The pictures didn’t show up for me, but I often have trouble in the reader with videos and photos.
I have 8 cats. Pooh would be outnumbered here. 🙂
I will try to load the pictures a different way and see if that helps. It may be tomorrow, as I am, like Pooh, a bear of very little brain.
Only to the average observer… 🙂
🙂
Excellent and yes I think Pooh is probably my favourite bear too, 😀
It’s probably just as well that you didn’t have Pooh with you in lockdown, as I’m sure the puns would have been been unbearable.
😂😂