Hello everyone! I hope that you are able to keep warm in this very chilly weather! Please drink lots and lots of soup, because soup warms your inside and also your hands too if you put it in a  mug! But...a big word of warning! I would strongly , completely, utterly and totally, (on the other hand  maybe! ) advise you to not wear white gloves when drinking soup from a mug ! White gloves look soooo elegant and special on hands and teddy paws but tomato soup stained white gloves are not a very trendy look! I suppose though you could start a new fashion trend of wearing tomato stained white gloves! It may spread right around the world! There would be people and teddies from all around the world  going into Myers, Maceys, Harrods and Tiffanies, enquiring where the shelves are that display these tomato stained white gloves!   

    The other day I got such a big surprise when a teddy friend rang me on my ted mobile phone. Don't worry! It was a nice surprise not a awful one! I wouldn't want to have an awful surprise! But then if it is a surprise I suppose I can't alter in one way or another because I wouldn't know that it was going to happen! A surprise can't be an unsurprise! Once you know about it, mr surprise no longer keeps his name! 

   Anyway, Sally the soup making teddy rang to tell me that she had made some pumpkin soup for me to eat/drink! That sounded so extra doubly tripley yummy! I was sooo excited! She put the soup in a big saucepan, caught a bus ( she hasn't  learnt to drive ) and very carefully made the journey to get the soup safely to me! She succeeded! She didn't even drop a soup drip!

   But as I started eating it, there was hard bits in the soup! "  How odd! " I thought to myself! Then I discovered  the issue! Sally had decided to put pumpkin seeds in the soup as well! They were very crunchy! She thought that they would add a nice flavoursome taste! 

  I have a big little question that I have puzzling about! Do you need to travel to France, buy an onion then travel home, to be allowed to have French onions in your soup? I am a little concerned about flying there! I am not concerned by the travelling part ; I am more worried that i have the responsibility at the kiosk of keeping bear guard at night time! I don't want to not do my responsibility! 

   Some of my teddy friends like hearty beef soup. Do you know why? Would you like to know why? I will tell you why! When you put the hearty beef soup in a mug, you need to pour some milk over the top of it. The milk  then forms the shape of a heart! It does look very special! 

   Well, I had better go now and get some herb bread to eat with my soupy meal ! 

   Until next time.

       Your friend Kiosk Ted Strath.