I am going to tell you about what we have been doing over the Christmas holidays but, before I do that, I should say I hope you have had a happy holiday. We know that not everyone does and that some people are sad or lonely, so we send hugs to them. Other people don't get a holiday at all and have to work hard while we small bears are eating tasty things and opening presents, so we send hugs to them too.
We think it is strange that humans don't arrange their calendar so that is the last day of their year, but humans are rather strange. 
We do approve of the human custom of giving presents at Christmas. We (with help from our humans) sent a few cards and presents to some of our friends and we were given some presents too. Huddlesford and Dudley had theirs (from Polar) early, so they had a Christmas jumper and winter onesie to wear. Waverley loved this little Christmas stocking we were sent by Hattie the Otter, one of our kind Twitter pals, which he hung up on our Bear Basket.
The smallest bears loved Christmas most of all, just as human cubs do. They thought the Christmas tree was marvellous and enjoyed climbing on it, as they are small enough not to risk toppling it over.
There were presents to open on Christmas Day too. Polar had bought two small stockings full of treats for us to share, made by one of the clever ladies at the pensioners' group, so we let the cubs open these.
Inside, they found lollipops, chocolates and sweeties - plenty for all all to share and enjoy when watching Christmas movies.
Being good little bears, they tidied them all into a bag, which we hid in the Christmas tree, so we knew where to find it but our humans guardians didn't! Of course Polar found the remaining treats when she took the tree to pieces, and has put the bag in the larder where she says it will be safe, but we are not so sure!
The other bears asked me to open the small parcel that had arrived from Tour Guide Ted with Dudley Bear and several other little treats. It contained a tiny musical box!
"They were following a star, but Huddlesford and I were out looking for planets yesterday!" said Hanley Bear. And he is going to tell you more about this and some other adventures in his next Paws around the Potteries post for this blog, coming up soon!
Some human customs are great. We bears approve of having tasty treats at Christmas, especially Christmas cake and home-made trifle. We are not allowed very much trifle, because it has quite a lot of sherry in it, and the cake contains whiskey, so we are only allowed a few crumbs, but as much as we like of the icing and marzipan.
"That will be just the thing to help the cubs get to sleep in the evening!" I said to the other bears, as it plays a very sweet little tune.
It's now 6th January, so the decorations were taken down and the Christmas tree put back up in the loft this morning, but the cubs had one last Christmas treat to stop them feeling too sad, which was colouring in a card from our pal Mr T Bear, which had the Three Kings on.
Polar's present to Grizzly was sponsoring a very old bear who lives at the RAF Museum at Hendon, in north London. He is called Scotch Jock and he used to go with his human on dangerous flying missions during the First World War, and we hope Grizzly's sponsorship means he will now get plenty of porridge and marmalade, and even a "wee dram" whenever he likes.
Jock is over 100 years old now so, although we have declared him an honourary member of our hug, he won't be able to come out on adventures with us, although we will hopefully be allowed to visit him when there is less of the nasty virus about.
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