Teresa’s dog is named Star. We had to leave Star in America whilst we got the garden fences repaired and waited for her paperwork to come through for the PETS programme, so that we may bring her home. There was a time where you could only bring a pet into the country if they stayed in quarantine for six months, now there are a number of countries who are allowed to run tests for rabies, if the results are negative after six months then the pet can travel immediately under the PETS programme. It won’t be too much longer until Star can travel. We’re not too sure how she will cope with the journey, but she will be welcomed on her arrival.

I promise that I am going update my blog soon. My apologies for not updating my blog, but I have been traveling around Europe and Africa for the last month and will be traveling around the rest of the world for the next month. I have lots of pictures from the places I have been. We have over six thousand photos to go through. The countries include Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Holland, France, Austria, Libya, and Egypt. I also have lots of stories from my travels.

The premiere of my movie, “Return of the Teddy” was last week at the Grand Lake Theatre. The critics gave it good reviews and I am already in negotiations for the sequel. I have been overwhelmed by its success.

When searching the net, we found stories about a bear who was owned by the RAF and who travelled the world. His name is Harry Air. He is the most travelled member of the Royal Air Force with hundreds of miles clocked up in his log book. He has been to all the RAF bases around the world and flown in all their aircraft. I think that is pretty amazing.

At the end of 2004 he was put up for auction to raise money for Children in Need and raised £750. I thought that was amazing. You can read all about him and his adventures. I think the best thing is that he also loves donuts, which shows he must be related to me in some way.

http://www.linxdesign.com/harry/index.asp

I have invested my hard earnt pennies in a chain of donut stores. You’ll find them throughout Califonria, so when you’re on the road look out for the big donut with “Cuddly’s Donuts” written on it. You’re always welcome. Go in and ask for me. 🙂

I have just signed a 3 year football deal. The chairman was proud to annouce the deal. Okay, so this really didn’t happen, but you can play out your own personal football career at the puma football website. It is worth giving it a try yourself.

http://www.pumafootball.com

Do you need a spatula? Don’t have a gift for a loved one? Then try the virtual spatula server where you can get a spatula of your choice. Show your love for someone, give them a spatula. 🙂

http://www.virtualspatula.com/send.php

It was Harry’s birthday on the 5th March. He was 5 years old. We knew it was his birthday because Teresa found the original receipt from Harrods, so unlike some of the bears, we know his birthday. Teresa was pretty amazing and created a donut shaped birthday cake within minutes.

This is my attempt at a scifi film “A naive computer programmer is working as a spy in a sun-baked spaceport. His computer is destroyed by a rogue parasite. With the help of a mute alien, he must cross into another galaxy in order to avert disaster and save his way of life.” and is known as the Untitled Cuddly Bear Project. It sadly doesn’t have any known names linked to the project yet or even a distributor, but I will persist with Julia Roberts agent until she signs onto the project.

If you don’t think much of my scifi film plot then try for yourself.

http://www.warpcoresf.co.uk/scifiplot2.php

Teresa is really creative. She saw a donut cushion on the ‘ternet and acclaimed that she could make that, so she gave it a go and made me a donut pillow. It is utterly amazing. I have had to warn the other bears that is not real and the sprinkles are sewn on!

I came across an interesting site which produces conceptual art from images found using google images. This is the piece of conceptual art which I created and it will be going on auction at sotherbys very shortly. 🙂

http://tinyurl.com/aw3xe

I always thought that when driving and suddenly a policeman appears from nowhere with a speed gun that wouldn’t it be good if you knew it advance that they were going to be there, well now you can because the Hertfordshire police actually warn everyone where they are going to be. I came across the site totally by accident.

http://www.hertsdirect.org/actweb/safetycameras/default.cfm?type=mobile

In attempt to kickstart my movie producer career I have produced a bollywood movie short with subtitles. The title of the short is “Donuts are forever”. 🙂

http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/play_uk.php?id=769566

I was fortunate to get the entire series of Lemony Snickets books for Christmas. I had problems reading before, but with my new glasses I was engrossed so much that I went and read all twelve books.

I got some perscription glasses today, so I can finally read without squinting. This means I can use the computer more often now because I can see the screen clearly. I will post a picture when I get the chance.

My favourite character that I met at Disney was Sulley from Monsters Inc. When he saw me in Teresa’s coat he pushed past all the people wanting to take photos and headed straight towards me. Teresa took me out of her coat and he grabbed me between his paws. He then started to walk away. He then realised that all we wanted was a photo with him, so he posed for the picture and then gave me back to Teresa. I was really scared for one moment as I thought he was kidnapping me.

The Alice in Wonderland maze wasn’t too bad, although there was some disagreement between Teresa and me about which way to go. I had been through the maze before and was certain I knew the way to go.

I don’t think many people know about the door mouse coming out of the kettle, but Teresa noticed that the door mouse would come out of the kettle each time it boiled. We waited by the kettle and took his picture as it boiled.

I got to ride the Carrousel which was really nice. I like gentle rides, but I also like really fast ones too. I don’t much like simulator rides as they make me sick.

I got to meet the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. He was really nice. He kept wiggling his tail which made me giggle.

Here I am inside Teresa’s coat, infront of the Disneyland Park. The weather was very gloomy whilst we were there.

I was surprised to meet Chicken Little at the studio. He was signing autographs and was giving everyone big hugs. I really like him and can’t wait to see the film.

There are some great rides in the Disney Studios at Disneyland Paris. My favourites were Moteurs in Action, Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and Armageddon. They are building Terror Tower there too, you can see part of it in the background of the picture.

I think my favourite character that I met at the character breakfast was Baloo from the Jungle Book. He gave me a hug and after the photo he danced with Teresa.

It was great meeting Mickey Mouse at the character breakfast. He must have a really busy day meeting everyone.

Whilst at Disneyland Paris we decided to go to the Disney Movie Studio. It was a very wet day, but whilst we were entering the studio we got to meet Chip from Chip and Dale. Although in France they call Chip and Dale, Tic and Tac.

I wouldn’t say that I am a savage animal, but they put me behind bars. I only bite if someone takes away my donuts.

We all got to ride the Dumbo ride. Wendy, Teresa and I all shared one elephant and flew really high. Craig, Simon, Rebecca and Joshua all flew in other elephants.

There is one Disney character who I really don’t like and that is Pinocchio. Whenever anyone went up to him in the park to take a photo or get his autograph, he would run away. The same happened last time we visited the park.

I’m really excited. Tomorrow morning we set off for Disneyland Paris. Were going to be there for 4 days and tomorrow evening we go to Buffalo Bill. It is going to be great fun, although the weather might be a bit wet. I am going to take my new raincoat so hopefully I can go on all the rides there.

We were wondering how everyone gets to my site. We have taken a look at the statistics and compiled the top 20.

1. alice in wonderland
2. christmas tree
3. snowman
4. star wars
5. pillsbury doughboy
6. finding nemo
7. space mountain
8. goofy
9. forrest gump
10. doughboy
11. james bond
12. nemo
13. pillsbury
14. birthday party
15. tower of terror
16. keanu reeves
17. alice and wonderland
18. teddy bear
19. pirates of the carribean
20. birthday

There were some odd search terms outside the top 20 such as “beyonce’s nipple slip”.

Teresa’s winning streak continued. Ronn was insistent on playing the $1 wheel of fortune slot machines. She put $20 into the machine and came away with $547.

The Andorian character at the Star Trek Experience followed Heather around, so when he came to our table we had to get picture of him with her.

The Star Trek Experience at the Hilton Las Vegas was amazing, the characters would mingle with the people in Quarks Resturant. They were great.

After seeing the Tournament of Kings at the Excalibur we went around at played the carnival games. Teresa’s luck continued as she won 4 dogs on the Monster Crane.

Teresa, Craig and me flew out from the UK to Las Vegas with Virgin Atlantic to hold a big party at the MGM Grand. We had booked a Sky Lofts room at the MGM Grand and had arranged for friends to come from throughout the US to travel to Las Vegas and stay there for several nights. The idea was to have as much fun as possible.

I have always thought I was a clean bear, but after having to endure another tumble in the washing machine I have come to the conclusion that I have to stop being a polychromatophile. I enjoy having a caesar salad, but the oiley dressing gets on my tshirt, and then for the life of me I cannot find anything to get the oil stain out. I tried 1001 carpet cleaner, oxi clean, vanish stain remover and all manner of suggested ideas from the internet, but none of them work. I only have so many tshirts, so something has to be done sooner and later.

Here I am with Sarah in front of one of the big tanks with the big fish. I prefer the small fish, so I stayed close to Sarah.

Yes, that is a shark. They are scary, even when they are behind a big sheet of glass. They seemed to like to terrorise the tourists by heading towards the glass and then turning away at the last minute.

I don’t know whether the fish were afraid of me, but every time I got close to the glass, they would swim away. 🙁

The London Aquarium is worth going to see if you have a 2 for 1 voucher, otherwise the price seems very high. There were some cool exhibits in the aquarium such as this car which was filled with water and fish.

For all you kids out there, why not try this at home fill your parents car up and add some goldfish.

I really liked seeing the fish swimming in the tanks. I’ll have that one over there with some chips please!

I really liked the jellyfish. I would have liked to have adopted one, but sadly that wasn’t allowed.

We went along to the Dali exhibition on the southbank. His statues are really stange.

We went on a day trip to London. Whilst there we went to see the London Eye. It didn’t appeal to Sarah who is afraid of heights. I thought that the London Eye would only be running until 2005, but it must be more popular then they had expected.

We had a wonderful Halloween party. I avoided wearing an embarassing outfit as I persuaded Teresa to put the pumpkin outfit on Grumpy. As you can see he was not very happy.

On the way home from Venice to Treviso airport Grandma started to panic. It got so bad that when they got to Preganzol station they got off the train and called Craig to find out if they had gone too far. It turned out that they were a short distance away from Treviso and that it would have been the next stop on the line. They had to wait for the next train.