Getting Even More Festive

It's Christmas Eve, and we're all getting very excited about Christmas, and especially the thought of meeting up with the Midlands and Suffolk Branches tomorrow. We can hardly wait!

Before then though, there's lots to do. Bris is currently helping one of our minders at a crib service and while he's out of the house the rest of us are wrapping up his presents. We quite enjoy present wrapping, apart from sellotape sticking to your fur, but the trouble is, we do so many activities together, that it can be hard to find a time when present recipients are not around to wrap up their presents.

Blue Bear is currently washing the Bearmobiles which have turned the same colour as yesterday's fog after the recent cold snap.

Randolph and Benji have the important job of looking after the Christmas Tree. This year's tree is not as big as the ones we've had in recent years, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in fine looks. We were caught out a week or so ago, when we discovered our usual supplier's stock of suitable trees had dried up this year. We had a hasty drive round the neighbourhood to find another supplier. We did find one, but all the big trees had gone, which is why we've gone a bit smaller this year.


We like our tree to last as long as possible, so Randolph fills up his stand with water from his tummy every day, so tree always has fresh water to drink.

We have received a special new decoration for our tree this year. This was a puffin, sent to us by one of our travelling companions on a holiday to Iceland that we enjoyed a few years ago. We sent so much time looking for puffins on that holiday (unfortunately they'd just flown a week earlier) that we keep up a steady stream of correspondence and gifts on the puffin theme. This is the latest fine offering.


You can see puffin hanging proudly alongside a collection of other decorations from distant lands (kiwi from New Zealand, jaguar from South Africa and Camel from India). Our tree is truly cosmopolitan!

Anyway, we may won't be blogging again before the big day arrives, although we hope to be posting again soon after, so we'd like to wish all our friends and readers a very merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful new year.

Have a lovely time,

Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx