03.18.07
All change in the woods!!
We have decided to joins blogs with how good friend Richard. All new post by us will now be at Richards’ Realm . Look under Teddy Bears Think. This is now how new home of the the wondeful wide web.
02.14.07
I Am Stupid
It’s official, I am Stupid. I took an online IQ test, and I am below average intelligence, and I am so happy about it (possibly proving my stupidity). I guess this could explain my terrible spelling and grammar, although truthfully that’s more to do with never checking what I write, and being very lazy. There were only 30 questions, with multiple choice answers from A to D. The time allowed for the test was 15 minutes. So I clicked ’start test’ and 5 minutes later clicked ‘result’. I thought it would be interesting to click any answer from A to D at random, without bothering to select the correct answer. Then I planned to re-do the test seriously, this time I would choose which answer I thought was the correct one. Unfortunately after taking the test the first time, I was told I could not re-take the test again on the same computer, Oops … so now I have an officially low IQ. I guess that was my first ’stupid’ mistake, not reading the rules. Had I read them I would have known that my first attempt was also my last, at least on that site anyway. Surprisingly I was not upset by my score, which popped up on screen almost immediately. I thought it was funny, yet more proof of my low IQ no doubt? My laughter soon ceased when the website kept sending me e-mails confirming my below average IQ. The e-mails did tell me that I was with 34% of the people who took the test in the below average group, the slightly above average group also had 34% of the people who took the test. So that’s 68% the remaining 32% (no I didn’t have to use my paws to work that out), were distributed between a few other sets. The people with the highest IQ on this site were a solitary 2%. So basically most of the people who took the test on this site were/are stupid like me. There is a major upside to being officially stupid though, now I don’t have to concern myself with anything I don’t want to, and people won’t expect much of me ,I am after all, stupid. I’m not finding it so funny now though because Yoelson thinks it’s hilarious, in fact I think I will search this afternoon for another site and take an IQ test seriously. Yoelson said he wants to try it too, he’s convinced he’s got a a higher IQ than me, time will tell. Although at first he enjoyed teasing me, today he has been cheering me up about being stupid. Yesterday when I told him my result he laughed and said, “well at least you are gorgeous”! Right now for that search … how do you spell IQ?
02.13.07
Reminiscing & Daydreaming
Chaucer and I were in a nostalgic mood this morning, so we enjoyed a trip down memory lane. Getting the rather heavy photo albums up onto the bed was hard work, but well worth it. We sat on the bed for hours, happily flicking through the pages of snaps taken over many years by Richard and Laura on our travels. I think our favourite album was the one which contained the photos of Italy. We loved our time there, although we didn’t like the journey much. It’s very uncomfortable being stuffed into a suitcase, and then thrown into the cargo hold of a plane by scary men, not to mention that it was absolutely freezing cold. It was a small price to pay for such a great trip though, and I’m sure if Richard and Laura knew we were alive just like them they would have been more than happy to book us a couple of seats inside the plane with them. We did have fun though in the cargo hold, we managed to get out of the suitcases and play with some other Teddy Bears, they had also been squashed into suitcases. It’s not easy being Teddy Bears, and it’s especially not easy being Teddy Bears who have real feelings. But we love our life, and we love Richard and Laura. We feel happy and safe with them, and maybe soon we will tell them we are alive!
A man who has not been to Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. Samuel Johnson
God Is Green
There was a programme on television last night titled ‘God Is Green’. We were unaware that anyone had proof that God exists. So if God is green, then God must exist mustn’t he? So that’s one of lifes great mysteries answered, excellent.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Oscar Wilde
02.12.07
Poo!
Oh Poo! I had written a long post about global warming, cows, kangaroos etc, which I posted, fine so far. Then as often happens I decided to add some other stuff about the Medieval Warm Period of around 1000AD, and the Little Ice Age, and about Mars apparently warming up, and suddenly everything I had written vanished … which is where this new post began … Poo!
Why don’t I ever learn and keep it short and simple? I write too much, same as I talk too much. I use dozens of words when just a few would do … see I’m doing it now.
I am frustrated now, the new version of my post was better than the first, and even though I only wrote it a couple of minutes ago I cannot remember anything I wrote, typical.
Anyway, about global warming, should we be worried, I change my mind daily.
Aha, I found some of the first post, this is weird. Modern technology, isn’t it great? I am too old for all this, I miss pen and paper!
Yoelson and I are slightly concerned about the end of the world as we know it. There is so much in the news about global warming, and that people must act now before it’s too late. We are getting fed up of all this negative news, we think if the broadcasters haven’t got anything cheerful to say … then they should say nothing.
We can’t believe that there aren’t any up~beat stories to report, all this doom and gloom in depressing.
As America and China are the naughtiest countries in regard to causing life threatening damage to our planet, obviously they need to act first and fast. Also obviously, it’s doubtful they will. Politicians are not really concerned with the future, they only think of the here and now. We have been reading a lot about cows again lately, we know this is old news but are cows really to blame for global warming? Should we swap them for kangaroos? This probably won’t go down well with the likes of PETA, but you can’t please everyone all of the time. Apparently the answer is in the stomach juices of skippy. Kangaroos eat much the same as cows do, but are far less windy. There lack of flatulence, and in turn lack of methane emissions could save the world. What a wonderful thought, planet earth saved by skippy.
Yoelson and I enjoyed a delicious roast lamb lunch today, and although beef is our least favourite meat, and we don’t use cows milk (it’s for calves), we would be willing to eat more beef (or should I say filet mignon, we do live in France after all), but only in the name of saving the planet of course.
Simple … problem solved, wasn’t that difficult was it? So why is it taking the people in charge so long to sort out, it’s not a new problem, we have known about it for years haven’t we? Why is the MWP never mentioned in the news? The Medieval Warm Period, a time of unusally warm weather which began about 1000AD, continuing until the Little Ice Age occured in the 14th century. Who knows what to believe, what about Mars warming up, is that caused by global warming? Is Mars getting wamer because of all of the petrol guzzling vehicles, oil companies, light bulbs, televisions, and lack of good insulation in the homes and businesses up there? Oh wait a minute, there are no vehicles, businesses, homes or people on Mars are there … or are there?
If every country and every person did decided to help save the planet, is it actually even possible? Or is it inevitable that we are doomed? We do try and do our bit to help, we use energy light bulbs which we only have on when needed, we recycle etc. But does any of this help, we have read articles about the damage cause by the recycling process so what is the best thing to do? Is everything predetermined anyway? Also from what we have read a warmer planet is a good thing, but is it?
Then again, Yoelson and I are contrary Teddy Bears, we think maybe people shouldn’t do anything about global warming. Climates change, land shifts, dinosaurs once inhabited the earth, now it’s inhabited by parasites humans.
I seem to be having negative thoughts now, which goes against my new beliefs. I am concentrating on positive thoughts only, have to be very careful what thoughts I send the universe, (but that’s another post for another day).
I am off now to think positive thoughts, so I will leave you with this …
is the human race really worth saving? Would it be so bad if all human life died out? Everything has to end sometime doesn’t it?
02.11.07
Can’t Think Of Anything
Too many things to write today, can’t decide on just one topic. So I’m not going to write anything ……. except …….
A woman had twins, and gave them up for adoption.
One of them went to a family in Egypt and was named Amal.
The other went to a family in Spain, and they named him Juan.
Years later, Juan sent a photo of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the photo, she told her husband that she wished she also had a photo of Amal. Her husband responded,
“But they are twins. If you have seen Juan, you have seen Amal”.
Well, it made Yoelson and I laugh!
02.08.07
Bad Hair Day
Chaucer and I are having a bad hair day. I know many women, and some men have the same problem, but for us Teddy Bears it is a much bigger problem. We don’t just have to worry about the hair on our heads, we are completely covered from head to paw in hair ~ fur. It is so hard to keep it smooth and silky, and as for the amount of grey … it is so depressing getting older. It’s just as well that it is raining today, as with our mass of tangles we would not want to venture outside anyway.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. Charles Dickens
02.07.07
Heavy Snow for Britain
Apparently the U.K. is due to be covered in a white blanket of snow. Britain is going to be plunged into chaos with heavy snow falling over various areas of the country, if predictions are correct. The South, and Wales will have up to 15 cms ~ 6 inches of snow falling tomorrow night and Thursday morning. London will also be having some snow, about 5cms, not enough to have much fun or build too many snowmen, but enough to cause travel disruptions. The rail and tube network are already warning passengers of possible delays, and it hasn’t even started snowing yet! It snows most years in Britain, so why does everyone act like it’s never happened before, and why is the country so unprepared every winter? It’s a crazy world that’s for sure. I guess we will be having some more snow soon, we tend to experience similar weather to the U.K. At the moment here it is a strange day changing rapidly from bright sunshine, to dull and dark skies. Yoelson and I are happy for the snow to fall, as long as we can stay snuggled up inside in the warmth.
Are flowers the winter’s choice? Is love’s bed always snow?
John Clare
02.05.07
Bird Flu
There’s another outbreak of bird flu in the U.K. This time it’s the birds of bernard mathews, apparently 160,000 of them have now been destroyed. The big question seems to be should people be overly concerned about it? Obviously the people in the know are saying there is no real danger to humans. I wish they would say whether we Teddy Bears are at risk, and if so what should we be doing to protect our health. The story is on all of the big news channels and not once have Yoelson and I heard them mention about the possible risk to Teddy Bears. It’s as if they have forgotten about us completely, they just keep on talking about human this, and human that … it’s outrageous. I guess it’s the birds fighting back, they are having the last laugh at being murdered for food all these years!
02.04.07
Feeling Very Lazy
It’s Sunday, and we are feeling very lazy. This morning we made the most of the sun streaming in through the windows. Now it is dull, it looks like rain, which was bound to happen as Laura watered the plants yesterday. Not much else to do when we are feeling like this, so we are off for an afternoon nap.
