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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 7h

Madame once bought a very chic rainhood (similar shape to item pictured but FASHION 🙄). Wore it once. Turns out it was perfectly designed to channel rainwater down her neck & into her bra 😬 She is now Team Rain Ponch. Keeps one handy in her rollator basket.

Photograph of a packet containing a vintage style yellow polka dot rainhood with peak. Packet includes a black and white illustration of a woman wearing a hood.

Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 7h

Some cosy viewing to go along with the return of the heat pad - one of our favourite art channels - Spilled Ink - on the background art of the Winnie The Pooh cartoons. youtu.be/mR4jbBD5XwU?...

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Trying to Paint Like Our Favorite Background Art Style!

YouTube video by Spilled Ink

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 7h

🎉 Autumn/Winter season now officially open with the return of the heat pad to Bear's Bed 🎉

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is currently a balmy 14C (57F) 🌴

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Madame is desperately holding off getting the bed socks on again but suspect it will be any day now.

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This sounds rather interesting - Paddington illustrator R.W. Alley teaching an online art class to raise money for Epilepsy Action. You can either join the live class tomorrow or watch a recording & only £5! www.epilepsy.org.uk/product/padd...

Advertising image for Learning To Draw Paddington With R.W Alley. Central image is a jolly looking man with a beard and glasses who is holding an illustration of Paddington Bear.

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mrs. Apple is here with a suitably autumnal soup for the start of October. Even notorious soup hater Madame approves. youtu.be/qyKOKXFiy-8?...

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Mrs. Apple's recipe — Mushroom soup

YouTube video by milin woolfelt

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a similar vein, back in the Thatcher era, folk would joke about wearing a badge saying IN EVENT OF TRAGIC ACCIDENT - NOT TO BE VISITED IN HOSPITAL BY PRIME MINISTER 👍

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I was thinking maybe a row of sausages on sticks to incentivise the runners.

It did cause your paw to break out in octopuses too! So brave *salutes*

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Obviously I wouldn't run with you all but I would be willing sit in a deckchair & make encouraging noises 👍

Hurrah! The audiobook of the new Abroad In Japan is out. Print version has been out for a week or two. Looking forward to catching up.

Cover of Journey Across Japan by Chris Broad. Features a brightly coloured illustration of a Japanese landscape.

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We know nothing of Lanterns but just googled it & a wee green bird flaps across the search results page. For that alone 😁👍

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Rain can signal hope, danger, romance, freedom or atmosphere ☔ In our new long read, Library staff explore rainy moments in cinema and what they mean to us.

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It WAS! I was down there so long that I ran out of paws to count on.

I might hide all of her bed socks.

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nearly bed sock weather again according to Madame. Although she deserves frozen toes after knocking me on to the floor again & not noticing for eleventy three & quarter hours. Possibly longer.

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The charging cable is found! In a box with no label. Because she forgot to order more label tape. Also she forgot she put anything in the box & it was supposed to be empty so didn't need a label. Witness protection programs should hire her to help hide folk.

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)

Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sept. 28, 1926: Visitors to the remote Scottish archipelago of St. Kilda watch a local woman demonstrate the art of spinning.

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At this point I think we just rebrand as Old Bear's Home For Dust, Dirt & Undisturbed Spiders 😬👍

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Teddy M. Bear @thisbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last time Madame had to recharge our wee cordless vacuum it took her many hours to find the charging cable. To the point she thought we would need to get a whole new machine. Never doing that again! So she put the cable in an really easy to find place. Or so she thought 😭

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It pure discrimination that Mr Bear did not win Fat Bear Week. Once again it has gone to a big grrrrrrr bear. Tsk.

Sending many hugs & hoping all goes well. May she soon be scampering about like a puppy with a new tennis ball.

Ah! Like International Day Of The Bear?! It is always International Day Of The Bear.

Oh noes! I missed special day for my friend @pinkbunny.bsky.social & her friends & relations?! I truly am a Bear Of Little Brain at times *shuffles off like a gloomy Eeyore*

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 26/09/2025

Ah. I hope her affection remains within safe limits. There is Loved, Well Loved *gestures to tattered self* & then there is Loved To Death.

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Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved ALL our lives when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.

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This is an OUTRAGE. NO TO WASHING BEARS.

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What a wonderful wee video! Like a moment from Beatrix Potter come to life.

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She is nearly as old as teddy bears!

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Of course! Obviously Tiny Tears must have cried 🤔 Only remembered the soggy nappy function 😬 But I am indeed a Big Brave Bear & laugh in the face of danger (unless it's a washing machine or a small sticky fingered child - then I hide & laugh very quietly)

I'll bet she has had some stories to tell.

What lovely colourful wildlife to see! Fair beats a scraggy pigeon or an angry gull.

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*nods* Madame did ask Santa for a Tiny Tears one Christmas. She wasn't entirely sure why but apparently that's what little girls were supposed to do. She played with it once. It was very creepy. Teddies were equals that went on adventures with her. They did not need their nappy changed 😬

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Yeah! Take that, Tiny Tears. Probably buried away in landfill long ago while I still sit happily on my pillow 🙂

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Hopefully it doesn't put the bitey on bears!