New slaves to do my bidding

Finally after months of trying to convince them the humans have finally got me rat slaves. These two little critters can do my bidding and fetch me food! There does seem to be a small problem right now where they eat the food rather than pass it on to their King but this will change soon enough!

Retro Bear

Once again Dumbledore has infiltrated my defences and has managed to snaffle yet more chocolate based treats. This time he managed to get hold of my current favourite retro chocolate bar, the Wispa. Good job my security cameras are around to capture the incident. Not to worry though, my intrepid guard baby managed to run him down and get him nice and sticky, well stickier than he was after eating the chocolate. He may be a mighty polar bear but not as mighty as a baby who is learning to crawl.

Royal visit to the Dounby Show

Welcome to another thrilling excerpt from my life. I know you inferior humans like to read about my glorious fun so you can give meaning to your otherwise drab existence so I will regal you with the tale of my royal visit to Dounby show.

Dounby is a town in Orkney and the show is an opportunity to meet all the players in the area and catch up on the latest gossip. As you’d expect I enjoyed conversations with many of my loyal animal subjects. I am sure that these sheep will remember this moment for the rest of their limited existence.The local dogs performed for my pleasure. There did not appear to be much plot to their show but they put their heart into it and enthusiastically led their humans around a obstacle course.Like all good local shows a large attraction was the rides. I too love a good tea cup ride and I also really enjoyed the swing ride. I had ordered a royal video of the event but my PR lackey feels that not everyone would appreciate me going round in circles for a minute. I would urge you to campaign for your right to see this momentous movie, I think it’s a shocking piece of censorship that I am not being allowed to share it with you and make your dull little lives a bit brighter.

Adieu,
King Dumbledore

I go driving in my car…

Well loyal subjects over the holidays I had the opportunity to try my paw at a range of driving opportunities. I can’t help but feel if I weren’t the wonderful and royal bear I was I might have considered a career as a JCB driver. You must admit I look very good at the wheel!

I also tried my paw at train driving though I found that there was a small issue of scale – having said that I was of course still very talented at it.

Finally a bit of fun I had heard that Quad biking this could be dangerous but I think you’ll agree I am completely in control of this rather shiny example. I even let Mohinder (one of my little tiger chums) try driving a 4x4.

Of course there are times when you just want to be driven and for those moments I have slaves servants to help me out and chocolate to nibble as I relax.

Until the next time,

Polar Bears For Obama

Okay I'm not usually political here but sometimes it is a little hard to stay neutral. The upcoming American presedential election has got me a little annoyed, mostly because of the views of the Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. I'm usually up for women crashing through the glass ceiling but her disbelief in evolution (she's a creationist) and that global worming is caused by humans and that polar bears are not threatened by melting ice caps, helllllooooo she lives in ALASKA!! Is this woman even connected to the same planet as the rest of us?

I'm not alone in this thinking, Dumbledore is concerned too, chek out his concerns here. In the mean time, I'm doing what every non-US citizen with no voting rights can do. I've got a bumper sticker on my car and hoping that somehow the American people will do the right thing. If you need to gen up on what's what and who's who in the election then you can check it out here.

Dumbledore sighted munching cake!

Read all about it here

The only Palin I support is Michael!

Usually I am a politically neutral bear but it has come to my attention that a certain USA vice-presidential candidate (Sarah Palin) is against me and my noble ursus maritimus brothers. Apparently she feels we are not in any danger and doing just dandy.

Now I know for a fact that rising temperatures are affecting my ursine brethren. Not all of us can live in houses and eat chocolate all day, some have to live in much colder places and have to hunt for their own food (I know it’s sad but I can only try and lead by example).

I urge my ursine brethren to support Obama. Remember, a vote for Obama is a vote for Polar Bears.


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Day to Day

It's been a bit of nightmare in the house this last week. Lottie came down with hand foot and mouth disease which causes blisters on the tongue and a fever among other things. Add to this she had some sort of infection in her throat, she's not been well. Just as she was getting better, lo and behold Lexie came down with it too (isn't it always the way).

To give me a hand with the kids whilst they were sick my mum took Lottie overnight and then Lexie, Minnie and I joined her the next night so we all got a bit extra sleep. The girls had a bath together with granny's help which made them all feel better too, their favourite part was making bubble beards.

Another piece of news, Chris has got himself a new job. He starts on Monday as a marshall at the local Karting. He has been looking for something new for a while- his old job hours weren't going to fit when I go back to work so this has come at a good time for us. Plus, it's a lot more fun than selling gas and electricity.

We were in Cupar this today for a Christening and the girls insisted that Uncle Tom and Auntie Kateri bring Dumbledore along too. All of them seemed to enjoy the day out and the cake.

"Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak..."

…when we’re out together buying chocs to eat.

Underling I have discovered heaven and it’s name is ‘The Oban Chocolate Company’.

Handmade chocolates you can see being made. The first challenge
was to choose from the menu. Not a simple task – even choosing a hot chocolate was a challenge in the end I couldn’t decide so I got two.


The chocolate sampler was wonderful. They had ones with chilli so they had a hot after taste, banoffee truffles, honey and ginger white chocolates…

Though I can’t help but feel I might have had eyes bigger than my tummy…

Rather busy...

Please don't take the lack of posting as a I have given up the crafty goodness - more that proper work has caught up with me and I am currently trying to help get a Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award expedition out, co-ordinate Duke of Edinburgh Award stuff for Girlguiding Scotland, finish my sock monster, get my Lones newsletter finished and do myreal 9-5 job!

Crafty night was cancelled this week but my version of Jingjing, a cat badge plus 'Pungy' the sock monster and some more Dumbldore adventures are all coming soon... ish :)

Can't wait for more Dumbledore adventures? He's been spotted lurking over at Clair's House