"I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date!" said the White Rabbit. Hmmm… I am not a rabbit, and I not coloured white so that means I wasn't late to the extra-special biggest teddy party of the whole year!! Hmmm… it was a New Year's Eve party so does that mean that it was the biggest party of 2013 or the biggest party of 2014? I was there when the clock struck midnight so, I just don't know!

Anyway, it was a great fantastic party! I will perhaps rephrase that, and say that it was a fun party when my teddy friends and I actually arrived at the party! I don't know if you know, but if you don't know, you will know now, because now I will tell you what you would like to know.( Did you know that  the word "know" is my most favourite word of the day/ You did not know? Well, now you do know!!)  What you need to know is… every New Year's Eve, a long black stretch limousine is sent out to collect my teddy friends and I and take us to the party! It is a very plush, posh and classy mode of transport! It even has a compartment where a box of Roses chocolates sits that travellers can eat a chocolate as they ride along! And… the bestest part is that we can sip peach nectar in glasses as we travel along in the car waving out through the windows at everyone whilst we are being driven!

But… there was a slight "hiccup" on New Year's Eve! It all happened when the limousine was coming to pick me up at the Kiosk. I had just elegantly jumped into the limousine (after Clarrie the Chauffer teddy had kindly opened up the side back  door for me, then shut it for me! I felt so grand!) and we had left the Strathalan property, when Clarrie  heard a beep beep on his bear mobile phone. Because he always obeys the road rules, he pulled over to the side of the road and answered the call. You must never ever drive whilst speaking on your phone!  The phone call was from his very nice wife Clarence. (You do not need to write on the front of an envelope if sending a letter to them:"Mr. and Mrs. C and C Teddy, then the address. It is quite okay just to write Mr. and Mrs. C. Teddy) Clarence and Clarrie have a little daughter called Clara.  It does get a bit confusing at times, because their names sound quite similar! But… it is okay because appaently when they were very little teddies, the first sound that they learnt to make was "KL ". That is quite unusual because phonetically "kl" is harder to say than "p b or t" … but teddies are often quite intelligent!  We do give great bear hugs you know!! Anyway, Clarence rang Clarrie to say that Clara was having so much fun trying out the new cricket bat that they gave her for Christmas. She got a little bit too enthusiastic when showing her Mum how she could swing the bat… when suddenly it flew out of her hand and went right through the window! It landed on the outdoors ground and left a cricket bat sized shaped hole in the glass window! There had been rain forecast for the evening, and Clarence was very worried that the rain would enter the house and she would be flooded! And, she had forgotten to buy any life jackets when she was last doing her shopping at Coles! Well, she did put it on her shopping list, but unfortunately, she crossed through the word "life jackets" with her pen rather than the word:" tim tam" on her shopping list. This resulted in 2 packets of tim tams instead of one, and no life jackets.  Anyway, Clarence was quite panicky, and so because Clarrie is a very kind and dutiful husband, he explained the predicament to us and my teddy friends and I all encouraged him to make a detour to his home on the way to taking us to the party . Soooo … we headed off to his house! When we got there, Clarence and Clara were both quite upset, but Clarrie calmed them down and said that "everything would be a-okay, or t for teddy terrific" . Clarrie then calmly took out the damaged home window and replaced it with the glass window of the front passenger's side of the limousine. The window fitted well, and the limousine now had a great new source of air-conditioning! No glass window! My teddies friends and I didn't need the front side window because we were all sitting in the back seat. Solution found and everyone was happy! Clarence and Clara were then going to go inside and make some choc chip biscuits and have some ice cream with hundreds and thousands on it to cheer them up. We them headed off to the New Year eve party!

It was such a fun night!! We danced and chatted and giggled and sang (very melodiously!!) and reminisced and of course enjoyed doing some eating! I don't know if you know Mr. Tedderley but he is an older teddy gentleman bear friend of ours. Hmmm... I don't quite know how to say this but if there is going to be someone who knocks something over or decides to trip, it will be Mr. Tedderley! He always just laughs at himself and tries to remedy the situation… and sometimes this makes it worse! He was passing beside a big punch bowl of fruit juice and somehow he just happened to manage to catch his paw on the corner of the tablecloth where the bowl was and the next thing we knew was that his paw feet has been thoroughly washed by a quite sticky fruity type of "water". The whole bowl of fruit juice had landed all over his feet paws as well as the floor! He just laughed and Hillary the hairdresser teddy quickly produced her handy hair dryer out of her handbag ( she always carries a portable hair dryer  in her handbag because you just never know when you may have to use it!!) She then proceeded to use the hair dryer to blow dry his wet paws and the ground.

We had the countdown to midnight with 10 seconds to go. This year it was Kiosk items influenced! We called out:

Ten tasty tim tams   ....nine nice bowls of Nutrigrain.....eight  eggy eggs....seven super packets or tins of soup ...six sensational shortbread cream biscuits....five favourite boxes of Cabury Favourites chocolates... four flavoursome fruit jams to spread on toast....three terrific Toby's Uncle breakfast cereals...two tins of tuna spread and one packet of original omo powder... and then the New Year began!!

We were all getting quite sleepy so we thought that we had better go home. Teddies never have t worry that their cars will run out of petrol because our transport vehicles don't use petrol! We are very kind to the environment! It also means that we never have to worry about shopper dockets at Coles that save people 4cents off a litre! Petrol stations always seem to raise the cost of petro at holiday times, so we are glad that we didn't have to worry about the cost on New Year's Eve!

It was a very exciting night but I am very glad to be home in my cozy chair in the Kiosk. I do like partying but it is also  nice to have a little sleep . Goodnight!!

Until next time,

              Be careful if someone gives you a cricket bat for Christmas! And please watch out for when little Clara becomes the opener ted batsman for the Tiny Teddies Cricket Club!                

      Your friend, Kiosk-Ted Strath. 

                  Also simply known as "Ted"!!