Have you ever tried chasing butterflies?? It is very tiring, you know!! But butterflies are soooo very pretty!  When I see these very colourful butterflies flutter by, I jump up onto my teddy paws as quick as you can say:"Beautful Butterflies Beckon Bears Bounding Bumpity-Bump along " , and rush after them! Please don't worry though, because I do NOT wish to catch them!  No! No!  I just want them to land on my teddy nose! I think that they would tickle my nose and make me giggle! And… my teddy eyes may even turn cross eyed when I try to see  the butterfly, and then Petra the Photographer Teddy would take my photo using her camera and I could get it blown up big( It is okay, I don't really  have a gun so I don't want to blow anything or anyone up! I just would like an enlarged photo of me with a butterfly on my nose!)

Oh! Suddenly I feel very, very sad. I think I may cry a little teddy tear. Is it okay if I tell you why I am feeling a little sad right this minute? I think you might be a caring reader that would understand how I feel so I will tell you. I have just remembered that butterflies only live for just a few hours! It is very sad that their life is such a short time. Oh! I have just had the most bestest thought! Butterflies must just have only a little life span because every single second they can radiate beautiful colours!! To think that they spend every second of their life shining out colourful sights to us makes very, very happy! I don't feel sad anymore! Hello Miss Buttterfly! Hello Mr. Butterfly! It is very nice to meet you!

 But… I do start to huff and puff with my breath when I chase after the butterflies! I am a fit teddy though!  I do hippity-hoppity-hip-hop-hip jumps every morning! (It is the latest trendiest exercise steps!) You hip and you hop and you… almost turn into a frog!! No! I don't want to turn into a frog! I would not like to be coloured green! It is not that I don't like the colour green; it is just that it doesn't match my eyes. Brown fur matches brown or black eyes much better than green fur.  But… one day Patrick the Painting teddy did accidentally fall off a ladder when he was up on the roof of his house doing some painting and fell straight into a big bucket of green paint! You may be wondering why Patrick was on the roof, using green paint? Well, it does have a logical reason. He was painting the roof gutters green. This meant that if they got blocked up with leaves and dirt, the gutters would just blend in with the surroundings. It makes a lot of sense don't you think! Anyway, Patrick fell into the paint and had a greenstick fracture in his leg.  It is quite unusual for teddies to experience such a fracture because we don't have bones! But… teddy doctor diagnosed the greenstick fracture and he is a very highly intelligent teddy with a lot of medical science degree behind his name.  It was a greenstick fracture because he fell into a bucket of green paint I suppose? The main thing was that Patrick didn't break his leg altogether. Anyway, his fur was covered in green paint and he had to have a shower to get the paint off, but  it took many days for him to be completely "green-less". (In fact, if you happen to look behind Patrick's left ear today, you might still find a spot of green paint still there! But I suppose that you usually would only be looking at his ear if you were wanting to whisper something to him!)

I eat Uncle Toby's Cereal every day, which gives me the energy to run after butterflies! Did you know that the Kiosk sells a variety of different types? I have a rotation system… I eat a different type of cereal or oats every day! I don't have an uncle called Toby though! The only Toby that I know is Toby the toasting teddy. He is such a very clever teddy! He really likes toasting bread to make toast! And… he can make the bread the ideal colour brown that you want it to be! You just order the bread: "light brown" or "golden" or "blackish" or " medium sunnyside brown" and he will toast it to  your desired toast texture perfection!

Well, I must have a little nap now so that I am ready to go looking out for little butterflies tomorrow! I would not want to miss a second of their pretty and colourfully patterned life!

Until next time,

              Have fun running after butterflies outside or if you are unable to do that, enjoy looking through glass windows at butterflies! You get a good dose of Vitamin D that way too!

      Your friend, Kiosk-Ted Strath.

 Also simply known as "Ted"