Being 'Bear Hunt' Bears

This is only a little blog post, to explain why you might be seeing us having adventures one bear at a time, rather than all together, over the next few weeks.

This is because our human guardians, their friends and neighbours are having to do things differently, due to this nasty Coronavirus.  Last week, we bears had a meeting to discuss what else we could do to help, on top of being good bears and not complaining about the lack of adventures.

We read that some bears had been sitting in their house windows waving to human cubs outside.  A famous writer and poet called Mr Michael Rosen once wrote a book for cubs called 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt', about a silly family who went looking for bears and found a really big one, so the idea was that the cubs could hunt for bears while out for walks.  Mr Michael has been very poorly with the nasty virus himself, so we hope he is feeling much better now.

We looked out of the window by our Bear Basket and realised that we were hidden from the road by a big hydrangea.  'We will have to go upstairs instead,' said Hanley.  

So we climbed the stairs and Endon soon scrambled up to the bigger front bedroom window sill.

'This is a much better place to see and wave to human cubs,' Endon called down to us.  I climbed up to see, while Hanley decided to see what the view was like from the smaller window.

'There are a load of potatoes here!' cried Hanley.  'Do you think Polar and Grizzly have forgotten them?'

'No,' Endon explained.  'They put them up here to chit, to start sprouting, because this room is shady and cooler than the rest of the house.  They'll take them to the allotment for planting soon.' 

Hanley joined Endon in the window that day, and I went to the allotment to help our human guardians get it ready for the potatoes.  When we set off, I waved to the smaller bears.  It was quite difficult to see them.

The next day, we all sat in the window.  Hanley suggested it might be fun to pretend we were watching a football match, so we put our Stoke City scarves on.  Hanley made up a commentary for a game where Stoke beat Bayern Munich by eight goals to two, which stopped him getting bored, but we didn't see many cubs and they didn't seem to see us.

We did see another bear in a window across the road, and lots of rainbows drawn by human cubs for the brave health workers.

We decided to make a rainbow to put up in our window.  Polar gave us a piece of card and some felt-tipped pens to use, and sketched out the arc of a rainbow for us.  We took it in turns to colour it in, being very careful not to get felt pen marks on the bed linen!

Then we made a sign on the other side of the cardboard with pictures of all of us and 'Going on a Bear Hunt' written on it.

We hope these will encourage any human cubs being taken out for walks around the village to see us and wave back when we wave to them, but we don't really mind if they stay safe playing in their gardens and read about our adventures instead, because we will still be having small adventures at home.  

We've decided that at least two bears will be on Bear Hunt window duty all day, but that means one of us can leave the window to do other things, like gardening or cooking or making things, and we all come downstairs to have tea and watch television in the evening, before it's time to snuggle up in our basket for the night.

But we will be up bright and early tomorrow, in case any human cubs are out, with their mummies and daddies, hunting for bears!