panda bear

I was born in 1955 and toy factories were still stuttering back into normal production after the war when they'd been requisitioned to make things for the war effort. My Nanna searched London for a teddy bear when I was born and was so upset because she could not get a golden furry teddy only a dark brown bear with some sort of plush covering, I loved him dearly.

When I was a toddler Nanna found a beautiful panda bear and gave him to me in place of old brown teddy but I refused to look at the panda and held on tight to old brown teddy. He was a long-suffering bear and never minded being carried around by an ear, or being left out in the rain. He was my first friend and he was not very good looking but he was very good for hugging.

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I borrowed my mothers digital camera a few weeks ago and when I uploaded the pictures I took onto my laptop all of the pictures my parents had taken came with them. My parents (my mother and step-father) do a lot of traveling in their golden years. They don't feel the need to keep me informed as to when or where they're going, but they're always going somewhere. On cruises and vacations-the sort of thing one should do at their age. And judging my these lovely pictures of a panda bear's BUTT I'd say they stopped at the zoo in their travels.

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