They were going to a party to celebrate the fiftieth wedding anniversary of some friends. Polar and Grizzly won't get to celebrate theirs until Grizzly is ninety-nine!
We had to stay at the B&B while they were there, because they said it would be busy and, when it got dark, humans who were dancing to the band might accidently step on us, so we played our tag game "Whizzo". Waverley won. as usual!
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Although it was fun and the band were very good, our humans didn't stay too late at the party, as we were all going to London in the morning, to stay at the nice hotel in Brentford by the canal that we had been to before, and to visit Mr George, Grizzly's son.
As usual, Polar and Grizzly made sure the day was a mini-adventure for us as we stopped for Elevenses at Blackbushe Airport, and watched lots of small planes taking off and landing, including a small bi-plane. Grizzly didn't think it was a really old one but it still looked as though it would be great fun to fly.
Then we stopped for lunch beside the Thames at Runnymede. I came through here on Uppie in 2017 but we didn't see anywhere to moor, and we had Mr George and his friend Mr Mitch with us that day, who we had promised to drop off in Staines.
It is a very famous place in English history, as King John signed the Magna Carta here, which was supposed to give lots of new rights to his people - or at least the rich and powerful barons. King John later refused to honour it but some of the ideas in it were important for the future of human history and government.
We bears were more interested in the river and the various boats on the move, including a Dragon Boat and a paddle-boat, but we liked some of the monuments humans had made about Magna Carta .
This one is called The Jurors and looks at important moments and people who have brought fairness and justice to human societies, while behind the trees is a big memorial supported by the American Bar Association, because lots of early US laws and their Constitution were partly inspired by ideas from Magna Carta.
Further up the hill is a very special place which is actually a little piece of US territory! There is an acre of land here as a memorial to US President John F Kennedy which is technically American soil, although our humans didn't need their passports to visit it.
We reached our hotel during the afternoon and went onto our balcony to look at the canal boats while Grizzly had a nap. He and Polar went out for dinner with Mr George that evening, without us.
"Booo!" said Hanley Bear, who had hoped to go too and try the local beer, but Polar said we ought to have a quiet evening after such a busy day.
"We won't be late back, little bears," she said. "And we'll all have a nice day out tomorrow."
Polar showed us some photos she took of the houseboats along the Thames and a very smart area called "The Strand on the Green", where they were going for their meal.
We were hoping to have a peaceful evening but, unfortunately, the humans in the next room were having a party and were still making lots of noise when Grizzly and Polar got back - they had even moved our balcony furniture onto theirs so their friends could sit on it!
Eventually, Grizzly went to tell them off and they tried to make less noise, but it was still hard to get to sleep. We were very cross small bears!
Polar and Grizzly were having another day out with Mr George on Sunday and, this time, we went too. We started off in Chiswick High Street, where there was market. Mr George's flatmate, Mr Matt, was selling bunches of flowers he had grown himself, like the nice one Mr George had given Polar the previous evening.
Then Mr George took us to see Chiswick Park, which is one of his favourite places.
We couldn't explore all of it, as there was a big music and food festival going on next to the house, but we walked around a lake and made friends with some herons who lived there.
As you can see from Polar's pictures, it is a very nice park but it is also very big, so we stayed in our Bear Bag while Mr George was showing us around, so we didn't get lost.
After lunch, Grizzly decided he would like a nap, Mr George said he was going to see if he could find somewhere where he could see the bands and Polar said she would like to see the conservatory and kitchen garden - so we bears went with Polar.
Endon Bear wanted to see if there were any fruits or vegetables being grown in central London that were different to those we grow in North Staffordshire, and we all hoped there might be some berries we could eat!
We were pleased to see that the gardeners were taking steps to look after insects in the gardens, with a large patch of long grass for them and a really big bug hotel!
There were some very old trees in the orchard at the far end of the garden. Because it was quiet, Polar let us out of our bag to do some climbing, then decided we would be safe doing some exploring too.
This meant more opportunities for climbing! Endon decided to investigate some more apple trees while Waverley found a scarecrow to climb on.
"You might scare the crows, but you don't scare me!" he laughed.
Polar was interested to see that they were growing a second crop of climbing beans, which must have been sown in July or early August. She didn't think that would work for us, as we would usually get a frost before they had grown enough to make beans, but thought next years bean experiment might be to start batches off at fortnightly intervals, including a few late and early ones, just in case the weather was kind.
After a good run around, Hanley Bear checked the time on a sundial and said it was time to check that Grizzly was alright and to see if Mr George was back.
Mr George was back and Grizzly was still napping where we had left him, under a big tree, so Hanley Bear shouted "Wake up, Grizzly!" at him, and he did.
By now, we were all hungry again, so we went back to the High Street and found a nice cafe where we could get ice-cream for small bears and tea for the humans.
Then it was time to say goodbye to Mr George. We went back to our hotel on the bus, then Polar and Grizzly took us for a nice long walk along the canal, so we could see the interesting boats moored here.
We saw two really smart Dutch barges. Grizzly said that if he had lots of money, he would buy one for Mr George to live on. We thought that would be nice for him, as he could share the boat with a big hug of boat bears, but Grizzly doesn't have lots of money so that probably won't happen.
The tide was low in the evening, so there were no boats coming through the locks and everything was quiet. I remembered how glad I had been to get here in 2017 after our frightening journey along the tidal Thames.
When we got back to our room, we were pleased to find that the noisy people had left and some nice, quiet people had settled in next door, so we had our patio chairs and table back again! We nibbled some fudge Mr George had given us, and thought how lucky we were to be enjoying yet another adventure!
And there were even more ahead!
