I don't like to complain but.... I have a very sore toe!  It is quite painful you know ! I did not get the toe pain from wearing too tight and too smallish shoes. I did not get it because a carton of long life milk fell on my foot. The pain is also not caused by a pet rock falling on my toe. ( did you know that pet rocks are the latest "in" thing for the fashionable, trendy and stylish conscious teddy to have as a pet? I read it in the latest edition of "New Bears Idea"  magazine! I read the same article in "Woman's and Bear's Day" magazine too, so it must be the truth !  Everything that is written in the bears version of the magazines New Idea and Woman's Day is 100% , totally, fully correct, factual and ...nearly complete true! Pet rocks are the ideal pets to have because you don't need to feed them or give them something to drink. They don't take up much space in the room, and they don't snore at night time! Of course, they are not as soft and cuddly like a teddy bear! And they are not as chatty as me! They don't smile like teddies do! And you can't hug them like you can a teddy. But...apart from that, pet rocks are quite great pet companions!)

     Anyway, my sore toe is because Edna the Easter Egg Hunt teddy had an Easter eggs hunt through the outdoors and indoors area of Strathalan last weekend ! Did you find any chocolate eggs? I hope you did! They were very well hidden though! I hip  hopped , jitter bug jumped and lily pad leaped all over Strathalan looking for the eggs! It was soooo much fun! I found one in the Kiosk( Edna must have snuck that in when I was having a little  snoozey siesta one afternoon!), another was in the cafe( I wonder why no one saw that whilst enjoying having a drink there?), another was beside the piano in the McKittrick Centre( hmmm... David must not have been very observant when playing the piano there!) and another was right in the middle of the car park...which I just managed to rescue before it was completely smashed into a gooey chocolately mess by the tyres of a car!

 But...that still doesn't explain my sore big  toe does it?! It all happened because I tripped on an Easter egg! I was just skipping along, happily singing a song in the sunshine, sort of daydreaming about flying in the air( wouldn't that be a funny sight, seeing a teddy flying in the air! I have always wanted to fly! I would just relax in the air, wave a hello with my teddy paws to birds as I passed them by, and just feel calm and relaxed . It might be a surprise though to planes if they saw me! Oh, I might cause a plane accident ! Oh, then I perhaps had best not try to fly! I will just jump up in the air as high as I can!)

       Anyway, I didn't see the egg and I stubbed my toe on the Easter egg! It is sad that something that tastes sooo nice can result in my big toe pain. But... I subscribe to the fact that you must " get back on the horse if it throws you off " and you must face your fear, and so I thought that the best thing to do was to face what caused my pain... so I went and ate some chocolate eggs! Well, I faced what caused my pain!  It was a delicious way of facing it! 

         Please be careful if you haven't finished eating any Easter eggs that you received. I don't want you to have a sore toe too! It is egg-tremely painful! Please come to the Kiosk and buy some fresh eggs instead! It is much more safer. Unless you start juggling the eggs, and you drop one , and it falls on the floor and you step on the yolk, and you go for a slide, and... I think you just must be careful  whether there are chocolate or fresh eggs in your vicinity!

    Well, I must be off now to apply a bandaid to my sore big toe. The Kiosk sells all sorts of shapes and sizes of band aids you know. 

    Until next time,

            Adopt a pet rock! 

                 Your friend, 

                         Kiosk Ted Strath.