I've just been talking to my friends Gary and Greta, the Grand Prix motor car racing teddies!! They are in Melbourne at the moment for the big race!! Do you know what their official uniform is ? Yes, you're right, Gary teddy bear wears a black and white checked shirt and shorts and a  bright red cap, and Greta wears a very pretty white and red checked dress and a little jacket that is red and white checked too and a totally white cap. This is because of the official checked flag that is always waved at motor car racing events. And they also wear little white coloured sneakers on their foot paws. When the race is on tv, if you look really closely at the front passenger seat of the car, you may get to see Gary or Greta sitting there giving all the tv audience a little wave!  Please wave back to them, as they are very friendly teddies!! But… I'll tell you a little secret…but please don't tell Gary or Greta….I don't really like motor car racing at all!! Oh, oh, just to think of the loud noises and screeches and how quick the cars travel…well my little teddy head is already just spinning around and around with giddiness and a head ache and an earache!! No, no, motor car racing is just not for me, whether watching at the track or on the tv and definitely never ever would I even for one second sit in a racing car!! Greta did confide in me one day that she has some teddy bear ears-sized ear plugs that she keeps in her teddy bear purse just in case the noise gets too much for her. But I suppose she is just used to the noise by now.

Anyway, Gary and Greta came visiting me because of being in town for the race and they were VERY impressed by the machine that was in the Kiosk.  They excitedly rushed over to it when entering the Kiosk and seeing it there, and started to point at it and asked me all about! I proudly stood up extra straight and tall and informed them of what it was!! (Because I was glad that I was able to tell them something that they didn't know!! Gary and Greta have been all around the world you know, to all the cities and countries of the world where the motor car racing take place!! They know lots and lots of things!! But they hadn't seen a machine like this!) And you may be wondering what caught their attention in the Kiosk? It was…the trolley!!

Yes, they wanted to have a closer inspection of this 3 layered steel item that was heavily laden with all sorts of nice goodies to eat!! Their little teddy eyes were wide open when they looked at everything that was on it! Biscuits and chocolates and lollies and tissues and more!  Before I could blink my eyes, Greta had leapt onto the top of the trolley where the biscuits are!! (Don't worry, she is very light in weight and didn't break any biscuits when she landed on them! She is as "light as a feather" and took a little cushion with her to protect the biscuits underneath her!) And Gary rushed to get behind the end of the trolley to steer it…and off they went to try to head off around the Kiosk!! Hmmm…just a slight problem as they didn't unplug the cord from the power point where it was being charged up! They did indeed come to quite an abrupt stop, and poor little Greta sorted of lurched forward, did a somersault straight up into the air…and the next thing we knew she had landed head first down on the Kiosk floor!  Gary and I both gasped at the same time and rushed to Greta's aid…and was most relieved when we heard her give a little giggle and exclaim in a loud voice: "That was so much fun!! Even better than being in a racing car at top speed!!" 

Well, of course the best thing to do after having a bit of a shock is to have a nice cup of tea and some biscuits!! I grabbed some Lipton teabags off the shelf, and a packet of  shortbread creams and a packet of tim tams  and a  block of dairy milk chocolate, just for medicinal purposes you know,  just to raise Greta's blood sugar levels just in case the shock had upset her system. And just watching Greta's accident gave Gary and myself a shock too so we needed to "up" our sugar levels too!

I said goodbye to Greta and Gary and they left the Kiosk to get ready for their Grand Prix duties. I secretly, or perhaps not so secretly were extra glad just to climb into my comfy seat in the Kiosk and have a little nap, amidst peaceful silence with no car revving or loud noises or car exhaust fumes!

 Goodnight from your very "un rev head" teddy friend,

    Until next time,

           Mr. Kiosk-Ted Strath

                       Also simply known as "Ted"!!