The First Bear In Space (nearly!)

Being the bears of minders from farming stock, we have been busy bears these last few days during the Suffolk Show, where we rushed round as fast as our paws would take us to visit all the animals, watch Cyril the terrier and his racing squirrels and sample all the goodies in the Food Hall, including some very nice new Adnams Spindrift, which I think Norfolk Branch may like nearly as much as their beloved Wherry. However, we are now able to regale you with the story of our big adventure - or how Tiny nearly went into orbit! While in France we visited La Coupole, the site of an intended V2 rocket launch pad. You can see us in the big maze of tunnels reading about how the Nazis tried to design and launch the first liquid fuelled rockets against London. Fortunately this never came to fruition.



However, Tiny, not being very good at French, didn't quite grasp what it was all about and on coming across a scaled down working model, he hopped on board one of the carriages which transported a miniature V2 rocket round on a track, and he promptly disappeared into the quarry from where he was about to be launched sky high - but luckily Kiwi found the emergency stop button just in the nick of time and all was well. We then learnt how, after the war, the technology of the liquid fuelled rocket was then used to develop rockets for space exploration. We investigated the bear sized rocket and wondered whether any bears had yet made it into space.



After all this history, we decided we needed a breath of fresh air so we hired a sand yacht for the rest of the day and raced up and down the beach enjoying the feeling of the wind in our fur. C'est la vie!



Welcome back Norfolk Branch and Midlands Branch - look forward to hearing your exploits soon