Above are Humph, Teddy, Someone Special, Harvey and Snowy.
Below they are again.
Snowy
is a teddy bear who came from the Middle East
over thirty years ago.
Humph is the Victor Meldrew of the teddy bear
world - not that he'll thank
me for telling you that.
Jack Tar is the opposite of a stowaway. We
were fortunate enough to
be on the maiden voyage of the Ocean Princess liner. Jack Tar was
on board at the
start of the voyage but left to live with us. He's a
roughty-toughty teddy that
likes to sit up drinking rum on Friday nights.
In Jack Tar's lap is Rudi. Rudi is a reindeer
but is an honorary
teddy. He came from Finland. He insists on being on the
Christmas tree because
he had a red nose. He tends to hibernate from October to mid
December to prepare for
his tree duty, and again from mid January to Easter to recover.
Next is Harvey, or, in full, Harvey Goldsmith.
He is a very
responsible bear: he is in charge of looking after
jewellery. The jewellers,
Goldsmiths, gave him to us to look after. Despite being
responsible, he is quite,
quite scatterbrained. Hence, he is scatty Harvey. Sadly,
Jan tried to make him
feel better one day by giving him a posh title: Scattylogical
Harvey. Ahem. I
haven't told him or her what that word means; if you know what it means
please keep
schtum. If you don't, don't bother looking it up; it is not
likely to be a word you
need to know exists.
Next is the biggest of the big bears, Teddy Bear.
He still has his
bow tie in this picture. That has long since gone now. He
didn't like it and
nor did I.
In Teddy's lap is Someone Special. Yep, that's
his name. He
looks after whatever Jan's PC is at the time. It was Someone
Special who got Jan
through her BA.
Bear | Date |
Snowy | 13th January |
Humph | 25th May |
Jack Tar | 15th February |
Rudi | 25th December |
Harvey | 25th December |
Teddy | 21st June |
Someone Special | 25th October |
Techno Ted | 25th October |
Cefn Coed | Easter |
Beanie | 25th December |
Patches | 15th February |
Lolly | 25th December |
Shambles | 2nd Friday in December |
Jersey Jem | 14th August |
Snuggles | 15th February |
Cadbury Bear | 29th September |
Barty | He's still trying to decide... |
Scruffy | 13th January |
Mumbles | 13th May |
Alderney | 13th January |
Rupert | 25th December |
The lamb with no name | 29th September |
The Kleenex Bears | 15th February |
Congratulations Bear | 13th May |
The Teasel Mice | 13th May |
Kenny | 15th April |
There are others...