When 2 Blogs Meet (it could only happen at Greenbelt!)

We haven't quite finished our Poland adventures, but we've had such great excitement this weekend we simply can't wait to tell you about it.

We've had a fantastic long weekend at Greenbelt, a mega arts festival held at Cheltenham racecourse. We arrived on Friday morning and have only just got back, which just goes to show how much there is to see and do there! We camped under the bear flag which flew proudly for the whole weekend.


Greenbelt is always a special place and one of the highlights of our year, but this year it was even more special than the last 2 years we've been, as we met someone we've been waiting a whole year to meet. Can you guess who? Yes, it was our friend Naughty Bear whose blog we discovered at Greenbelt last year and which was the inspiration for our own blog.

Our regular readers with good memories will recall that we'd seen Bear last year having his picture taken but we'd been too shy to say hello. After reading his blog all year and exchanging emails and comments, he's become a real virtual friend, so when we found out he was coming to Greenbelt 2007 we hoped we'd get a chance to meet.

There are thousands and thousands of people at Greenbelt and we bears are too short to see very far ahead, so keeping an eye out for Bear seemed a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. However, some things are just meant to be, don't you think, and on Saturday evening we literally passed each other.

We were far from shy this year and rushed up to say hello and introduce ourselves.


And here we all are chatting happily and exchanging bear hugs. It was simply great to meet bear and his nutella gatherer and we had loads to talk about. Having virtual friends is great but meeting them in the fur is even better!

Bear has been doing some great postings about Greenbelt and has lots of photos which capture the spirit of this great festival so well, so have a read of his blog which you can easily reach by using the link to Where's Bear in our friends blog spots section.

We'll report on the rest of the weekend soon.

Lots of love George, Yorkie, Chelmer, Rocco and Bris xxx

Bears of the world unite

Our regular readers will know that we have recently made two new friends in the form of Naughty Bear and Small Seal. In fact, as we have said before, these guys provided the inspiration for this blog spot and we follow their adventures on a daily basis. We have a link to their blog spot in our favourite websites section.

Earlier this week we read about the indignities Bear and Small Seal suffered when, after a scary washing machine ordeal, that they faced with typical bear bravery, they were hung out to dry by the ears/flippers.We found it very distressing to look at the photo of them suffering, in fact we could only bring ourselves to look at it by peering through our paws.


Any non-bear readers may not realise the extent of bear/seal loyalty. If one of our kind suffers, we all suffer. We therefore thought it important that we protested on Bear & Seal's behalf. The reason we haven't posted anything for the last couple of days is because we have been busy planning our protest and making banners. In this photograph you see a few of us assembling, prior to setting off to the Houses of Parliament to meet our M.P. Rest assured there are more of us protesting than this picture implies. There are simply too many of us to fit in the picture.

Bear and Seal, our protest is for you, we hope it works and we can stamp out bear & seal torture forever!

Love from your brothers and sisters at Bears Unlimited.

What no racing?

We have had quite an interesting day today. We had a Bears Unlimited staff conference at Fakenham Racecourse. Now we know that Bear www.wheresbear.co.uk has sent a number of pictures in from Cheltenham Racecourse recently, and we were also there ourselves last month for the Greenbelt Arts festival, so we thought it would be interesting to take a picture or two to compare the difference.

Well, what can we say? Fakenham racecourse is tiny compared with Cheltenham; it’s basically bear-sized rather than human sized. They do quite a pleasant buffet lunch though and we especially enjoyed the bear-sized mini donuts, éclairs and strawberry and cream scones. Our only disappointment was that when we got to our afternoon tea break we found that all the leftovers from lunch had been cleared away so we couldn’t finish them off. I’m afraid Bear that there weren’t any nutella sandwiches though.

We were also a bit disappointed that there wasn’t any racing today as we were looking forward to saying hi to the horses and possibly winning a pound or two. The only activity that was happening was humans playing golf in the centre of the racecourse, which we thought was quite a novel concept.

Anyway, since there wasn’t any racing Yorkie, our friend Chelmer and I were

able to wander onto the course and test out one or two of the jumps. It made us realise how much longer horses’ legs are than ours!

Love George xxx

Credits

Before we proceed much further with this Blog we need to say thank you to Naughty Bear for providing us with the inspiration and motivation for setting up our own Bear Log (blog). Bear has a fantastic Blog spot at www.wheresbear.co.uk which has given us a lot of enjoyment since we first came across Bear at the recent Greenbelt Arts Festival. We all look up to Bear as a role model and can only hope we can begin to emulate his photogenic qualities and witty observations on life and nutella. Here he is.

Love and Bear hugs,

George & Yorkie

xxx