Do you like Summertime?? I do!! I like sunny weather! But… you must be sun smart! Don't forget to put on sun screen if you go outdoors! If I take one step out of the Kiosk door, I always make sure that I have put on my "summerwear uniform" of a "splodge" of suncream on my nose, a "splash" of cream on my teddy cheeks ( oh, I just had a very funny thought! It would be soooo funny if someone put on whipped ordinary cream instead of suncream! It would be quite delicious though to try to eat the cream off your own face when you discovered your mistake! Hmm… I had better not try it because I haven't got a big enough tongue to reach the cream!), pop on some sunglasses and "flop" on a big sun hat. I am then ready to enjoy the Summer's day!

 I do like Summer and going to the beach but… I don't like crabs! Belinda the beach bear spends the whole year at the beach whether it is sunny, rainy, cloudy, hot, cold, foggy, or snowing (It is perhaps a tiny exaggeration because we don't have any snow here in Melbourne! But… if there does happen to be an unusual day when snow does just happen to suddenly appear from the skies, she would still spend time at the beach!) She sits on a seat on the beach and sometimes goes for a swim in the sea. One day, she was sitting in a seat on the sand, reading pages from the latest editions of the teddy magazines :" Teddies Day" and "New Teddy Idea" ( these magazines are sooooo much better than other magazines such as Woman's Day or New Idea! They contain lots of interesting articles about all my teddy friends! They do NOT have gossip articles at all! And Belinda always tears out the recipes in the magazines to use  when cooking meals for her teddy family and friends. She also keeps up with the latest teddy fashion trends here and overseas  by reading the magazines. There is even a puzzle page with crossword puzzles to do in it!) Well, in fact Belinda had just started to do one of these crosswords, and had got totally engrossed in trying to think what an answer to one of the clues was. She was concentrating so hard with her teddy mind and brain, that she got quite a nasty surprise when all of a sudden she got a quite  nasty pain in her toes!  She exclaimed in a very painful voice:" Ouch! Ouch!" Then she looked at her foot! Hmmm…. Mr. Claude the crab had decided to have a tasty meal of Belinda's paw! I really think that it would have been quite too much furry, but crabs must have different eating tastes to teddies!! Belinda was in so much pain, and her screams of soreness frightened Claude so much that he went scurrying off back to the water.( I think he went to the water, but I  can't be sure because when Belinda was telling me about her awful day at the beach, she said that she was in so much pain that she just saw Claude rushing off somewhere and then she fainted and lost consciousness for a couple of minutes! Sea water is the best thing for bites, so  it was soooo good that there just happened to be water nearby to bathe poor Belinda's sore feet it! That was good wasn't  it! Belinda's paw healed very well, but she was just a little bit upset with Mr. Claude the crab and  accidentally-on-purpose forgot to send him a "happy birthday" card  that month. ( I wonder how crabs celebrate their birthdays? I have never been invited to a crab birthday party.  I don't think that I want to either! I would very much prefer to eat some lobster spread that the Kiosk sells instead!)

 I just have tell you the most funniest thing that my teddy friend Edward the eggiest egg-liking  teddy did the other day! It was such a very, very hot day that he decided to see if he could fry an egg outside in the heat by just cracking it on a plate! When Edward was younger, he studied at Teddy university and earned a Bachelor of Science degree so he has quite a scientific mind! He grabbed an egg out of his fridge ( he did not literally "grab" and egg, rather he carefully picked it up out of the egg holding area on the side interior of the fridge and nestled it in his hands!) then took the plate and the egg outside to test his theory.  He was just about to go out the back door of his house, when all of a sudden there just happened to be a rubber band on the ground…he tripped over it…and Edward, the egg and the plate went "topsy-turvy" up into the air and back down again, and he landed  not very elegantly  outside on the grass! The plate was on the ground in a million little pieces of china (I am sorry. I think that I am exaggerating. I do apologize! I should have said that the plate broke into 999, 999 pieces!)  The egg ended up  on his head! But… it was okay, because the weather was sooo hot that it cooked itself, and turned into a nice fried egg! Edward was very happy that his theory had worked, even though  his head had turned into the plate for the egg! 

Well I think I had better now just enjoy an ice cream from the Kiosk freezer now…

Until next time,

              Enjoy the Summery weather! Please be on the lookout for crabs and always wear socks if you are at the beach!                 

      Your friend, Kiosk-Ted Strath. 

                  Also simply known as "Ted"!!