Huff huff, puff puff ooh!! I am sooo tired! I have been training for the Commonwealth Games ! I am not actually going to be competing there, but I like to feel a part of all the sporting action and a bit like my teddy athlete friends who are competing in the teddy bear races over there! Did you know that there was a section for teddies to compete in? Well, there is, and it is such a friendly sporting Meet for teddies from all over the world to come together and compete. Hmm... the teddies don't actually "compete against " each other! Well, they do try to do their best in the races, but there are no gold, silver and bronze medals. Do you know why there are no such medals? It is because the medals cause severe sunken necks! They are just too heavy to wear! Also, there is a severe shortage of gold, silver and bronze metal in the world today. It is a result of the GFC otherwise known as the "Global Financial Catastrophe/Crisis" or simply there are just not enough " Good Flavoursome Chocolate cookies " being manufactured in the world! Teddies do like choc chip cookies, so they very happily agreed to forego medals and instead make sure there were enough cookies to enable everyone to enjoy eating them!
  My teddy friend Samantha, the swimmer teddy, is great at the butterfly stroke. It is very appropriate that she enjoys swimming because her fur is multi coloured, just like a pretty and colourful butterfly. She can swim so very well! In fact, when little Harold Teddy was having a bath in his bath tub one day, he started to get a little excited because he likes to splash about in the water. He was so happy splish splosh splashing in the water, that he swallowed water, got a bit panicky and thought he was going to disappear down the plug hole! Samantha to the rescue! She jumped in to the tub and rescued him! Little Harold was soooo grateful!
    Walter the Weight lifter teddy is over in Glasgow too! He has been doing a lot of practising here in Aussie. He has been lifting up tiny Tina in one hand and mini Matilda in the other hand! He ALWAYS has cornflakes for breakfast! It is his "energy for the day" food! One day, he dropped a barbell on his foot accidentally! ( hmmm... I don't think you would purposely drop a barbell on your foot! But...on the other hand, if there was a spider crawling on your foot and you were scared of spiders, you may be tempted to drop the barbell on your foot to kill it! I suppose you would just need to go with your instincts! ) His toes turned blue, then purple, then grey, then brown, then....Amelia the Artist teddy decided to draw a yellow smiley face on Walter's foot to make his feet happy!
    I am quite a good runner, you know! Each morning in Summer and Springtime , I go for a little jog around the Strathalan grounds, just as the sun is rising. These days, the weather is quite chilly so I instead do a few hand stands in the middle of the Kiosk. It gets the teddy stuffing in my head working( I have no blood in myself, just stuffing, so I can't get my blood moving!)
     Well, I had better be off now. It is time for my energy snack! Now, what will I decide to eat today?...... Until next time, Go, go, go! Aussie Teddies go! The green and gold are greats! We are all great Teddy mates!
   Your friend, Kiosk Ted Strath.