Hello everyone!  I like doing crosswords! And, I will let you know a little secret!  When I do them, I am never ever cross! In fact, they make me feel very happy! Sometimes though I do get a bit " cross eyed" when looking at the black and white grid, but that is the only way that I get " cross". I do sometimes get a touch bit frustrated when I can't work out an answer, but if the clue is doubly, triply, extremely puzzling and tricky...well then I head off to Encyclopaedia Beartannica and look up the answer! Oh, I must quickly tell you that I look at this encyclopaedia on the Internet, rather than a hard book copy.  I use to own a hard book copy, but then one of the encyclopaedia volumes fell on my  paw, and broke my teddy toe! ( Hmmm... well.... I am exaggerating a teensy tiny bit! Teddies don't have bones, we have stuffing. But if I did have a toe bone, I would have broken it! ) It was soooo painful! I had a bright rainbow coloured bruise! If it wasn't so painful, I would enjoy its prettiness! But anyway, I didn't want to risk any more volumes of the encyclopaedia falling on my toe! I kindly donated it to my local teddy school. They were soooo appreciative! I was invited to a special teddy bear school morning tea and school  assembly  where I was thanked for my generous gift! We had yummy teddy bear biscuits that had been iced and had hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top of it! We also ate green jelly that had Caramello Koala and Freddo Frog chocolates stuck in the top of them! It was a very happy morning! Little teddies are so very cute! They are always asking questions! But I think that is good, because if you don't ask questions, you won't find out the answers! The person you ask though may not know the answer, and then you won't know the answer to what you were trying to find out! But...my response to that is: Just ask another person your question! Or just " google it! "  

     Anyway, do you like to sudoku? It is a number puzzle. I don't do sudoku puzzles but I know that many other teddies ( and humans) do! Oh, just in case you may be wondering, I can count to nine, which you need to know how to do if you are doing sudoku! Actually, the other night I couldn't get to sleep so I decided to start counting and see how far I could count to. I have to admit though that I can't tell you how far I was able to count up to...because I fell asleep! It was quite annoying! Oh well, it did make me fall asleep. Usually a tim tam dipped in a cup of tea for supper makes me sleepy, but that night it just didn't make me fall asleep! Perhaps it was  because I had a Twinings English Breakfast type of tea, and my body and mind thought that it was breakfast time not suppertime? That may have been why my mind and body kept saying : " I would like to have a bowl of cornflakes and some toast"! 

   I must be off now. I need to puzzle over an answer for a crossword clue that I haven't been able to solve! 

    Until next time,

        Instead of a "cross"word, give out some "happy"words today! 

             Your friend,

                   Kiosk Ted Strath