Clanger Liberation

Our account of our visit to the National Space Centre is almost at an end. However, we've saved our favourite encounter to last. This was a meeting with someone we haven't seen for a few years and, when we did last see him and his friends, it was on the T.V. Here he is ...


It was simply splendid to meet a real live clanger and we were thrilled to be able to talk to him and catch up on all his news since he last appeared on T.V.

Mind you, as he was encased in a glass bubble we had to shout pretty loud to be able to hear each other. We looked around for one of those 'in case of emergency break glass' hammers so we could libearate our new friend but we couldn't find one. Clanger said he was happy as he was, but even if he didn't want to leave the space centre, we thought he should be free to roam round it at will, so we promised to return soon with the relevant tool.

Before we returned back to our respective homes, we couldn't resist an outing to revisit one of the local canals that we'd travelled last year - remember all our posts?

While we were walking towards the canal we were stopped in our tracks by the sight of some marvellous wood carvings. These had been carved into the trunk of a tree and painted authentic colours.


At the bottom was a friendly looking fox, and perched on the top was a rather rare red squirrel. As the owner of the house was in his garden and keeping an eye on us, we resisted the temptation to climb to the top and join the squirrel. We enjoyed posing with the fox though, and gave the house owner a friendly wave so he'd know we were harmless.


We also enjoyed our walk along the canal and were envious of all those we saw out in their narrow boats.

Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx