Two Tweet-Ups with the #BerkshireBears

During this very strange year, it was often hard for our humans to socialise with other human friends and not always easy for us to see our pals, as we small bears do need our human families to help us travel around.  

 

As you might have seen, we did see our friend Tour Guide Ted and his friends Frank and Theo, and Milly the Mammoth and Blueberry Bear, while we were on our West Midlands narrowboat trip, and had a big "Tweetup" with small bears and other pals in Sheffield, but we have not been able to welcome as many friends as we hoped to our home area.  However, we have enjoyed two autumn visits from our great pals the Berkshire Bears - Confused Bear, Cinnamon, Anise and Little Brown Bear.

Our first get-together was at the Spitfire Gallery in the City Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.  Their human guardians - Mrs Deborah and Mr Andrew, came with them, along with Mr Rob, who is Mr Andrew's brother, and a Stoke City bear called Stanley.  He and Hanley Bear became great friends straight away!  We all had tea or coffee and very nice cake together, although the funny table was very wobbly.

Hanley also loves talking to Little Brown Bear (LBB) about football but, during this visit, they spent most of their time talking about aeroplanes.  Hanley showed us all around the Spitfire Gallery, as he had been there before with Langwathby and Cosford from our hug, our Air Bears.

 

Hanley found a reminder of a much loved and much missed Twitter pal as there was an etching in the screen around the balcony of the S6B Schneider Throphy seaplane designed by Mr R J Mitchell, which Toddy Furrington allocated to him as his #TheAviators plane when he gave him his goggles.

The Berkshire Bears were in town again in November, on their way to see Liverpool play Arsenal.  We arranged to meet in the cafe at the Middleport Pottery.  

It was a very chilly day, so we all wore our winter coats and hats and snuggled together in our bear bag.

Because it was wintery, instead of having tea and cake we had oatcakes for our lunch, then we all went out to sit on the roof of the traditional narrowboat Dane, which is moored on the Trent and Mersey Canal beside the pottery.

 

We hoped we would see our friends again this month, because we were going to visit Grandad Polar, but we postponed our visit because of the nasty virus.  Hopefully we will all see each other again next year, along with more of our pals, both furry and human.