Hello!! I hope everyone is "fighting fit"! Oh, I don't really want you to be fighting with one another! It is not nice to get into a fight! You may end up with a black eye and then you would not look very fashionable to have one blue eye and another black eye. I did hear a rumour that the new fashion trend for glasses is to have the left eye rim  green and the right eye rim blue, but that doesn’t look very trendy for eyes.  Barry the Boxer teddy did try to teach me a few self defence boxing manoeuvres one day though. He thought that it may come in handy if a robber decided to invade the Kiosk. I could then "knock him out" using my bear paws. Hmm… it is not going to happen because I am  a little bit of a scared teddy and haven't got a lot of paw strength. Barry told me how to position my paw and give a big punch forward. Well, I tried that  movement out… and I used such a lot of force that I ended up flat on the ground with my little teddy nose inspecting the carpet! And when I tried to hit my paw against Barry's' body, I just "bounced" back off him! No….  my secret weapon is still the long life milk cartons! ( oh, I suppose they are not a secret now that I have told you! But…  please promise that you won't tell any robber-in-training that I am going to use the milk cartons if they come to invade our Kiosk. Or perhaps it would be  good idea to tell them, then they may get scared and revise their Kiosk-stealing plans!!) I will pick up a full cream milk carton( which of course is much heavier than skim or semi skim flavours, and throw it head first at the robbers! That will make them count the many stars in the sky.It won't really make them count stars because the Kiosk doesn't have a sky light to see through at the night sky! The cartons will give them a  headache though, and when they leave the Kiosk I do hope that they have a prescription for some strong pain killers. It is much better to get the pain killers that doctors supply on prescription rather than panadol. The relief lasts longer. Then the robber will have to lay down on a bed and fall asleep Hmmm.. I do think about the health of robbers even if they have tried to do some stealing from our Kiosk!

Anyway, I am not going to do any boxing or fighting because red boxing gloves don't suit my brown fur .They don' t colour co ordinate.

Anyway, did you know that it is teddy heart health this month? It is you know ! It is very important that teddy doctor gives all of us teddies a good heart check over because we often get hugged very, very hard and that can raise our blood pressure sky high! Hmm...I may be exaggerating just a little bit because the cuff  that teddy doctor puts on our arms to listen to the blood pressure doesn't need to get a passport or visa because it is soaring and travelling  so high up in the skies because we have raised blood pressure ! We have very soft hearts, literally and figuratively! (That sounds quite wise what I said didn't it! I am currently a bear student of life!) Do you know what Teddy Doctor said to me the other day? He tested my BP...and said "Well, it is good that you do have a blood pressure!" I was pleased too!

Well I will now go and have a little sleep so as to keep my heart resting well. Then I will go and have a jump on a trampoline!

Until next time,

            Don't fight, have fun and fly a kite, eat a bowl of Kiosk's Just Right and watch the stars at night!

            Your friend, Kiosk Ted Strath also simply known as "Ted".