OH MY GOODNESS OH MY GOODNESS OH MY GOODNESS - A Hawaiian Surprise from Tour Guide Ted

Hello friends!

I was very excited when my Twitter Friend Tour Guide Ted asked for my address so he could send me a little surprise from Hawaii! Tour Guide Ted is a world travelling bear with the coolest travel website ever and he has just returned from a trip to the Hawaiian Islands (lucky Ted!) Now of course I played it cool - wouldn't want to look TOO excited.....

Then this morning - a parcel arrived!! By ROYAL MAIL! At first I thought maybe the Queen of England was sending me mail......

But no - it was FAR more exciting than that....

Bears LOVE parcels! Especially padded ones that are so cuddly.....

After a little parcel cuddle, I had a peek inside....

Mmmmmmm....smells nice in there! Lets tip it out and see.......

OH MY GOODNESS OH MY GOODNESS OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!

Tour Guide Ted has sent me a lei

and a Kona Coffee & Macadamia chocolate bar

and MACADAMIA Hersheys Kisses

I'm so impressed that my friend has his own business card - doesn't he look handsome and professional!

He even sent me a postcard of his Holiday Villa in Florida....I know where I'll be booking if I ever get to that part of the world!!

Now, I'm (usually) a nice bear who shares....well, SOMETIMES! Here I am with my friend (and lawyer) Sir Wolfgang von Heiffen Steiffen. We're having a Hawaiian Tea Party!

Ok, just one thing left to do now......no, actually TWO.

Firstly - THANK YOU TOUR GUIDE TED - I have to shout because he lives really really far away and I don't have Twitter on at the moment.

Ok, NOW there's just one thing left to do....nom nom nom

Bill xx

Strawberry Sideways Jelly Surprise

Hello friends!

I found this wonderful looking recipe on a lovely blog called With a Grateful Prayer and a Thankful Heart. It looked so pretty and yummy I just had to give it a try. Mine's not quite so pretty, but here's my version of it...

So super easy to make, I changed the recipe a teeny bit to use ingredients available to me. Here's my take on it....

Ingredients:
1 package jelly crystals (I used port wine flavour)
1 cup sliced fresh fruit - I used frozen strawberries as strawberries are not in season right now and so were way too $$$$
1 cup whipped cream

DIRECTIONS
Prepare jelly according to package directions. Chill until slightly thickened. Set aside 1/3 cup. Add fruit to remaining jelly; spoon into 4 to 5 glasses. Chill glasses at an angle until set.

Meanwhile, fold whipped topping into measured (1/3 cup) gelatin. Spoon topping mixture into glasses of set jelly. Chill. Garnish

It's worth having a look at the original blog recipe cause Grateful Prayer's is so much prettier and also has whipped cream and strawberry garnish. It's a really nice light dessert that you can whip up super quick. And it will certainly make you friends....

Ok, just one thing left to do now.... nom nom nom

Bill xx

Nom Noms in Windsor

Hello friends!

It's the Queen's Birthday Long Weekend in my part of the world so Mumma Bear and I took a little trip to Windsor. That's the Windsor in Sydney, Australia...not England! I heard they had some really special nom noms there. It was about a half hour drive..... and I was a great navigator......

We passed lots of cows and paddocks......and even the place where turtles go to get their landscape supplies....

(sorry it's a bit blurry, it's hard for a bear to take photos out of the window of a speeding car!!!!!)

We got to Windsor and immediately I spotted the most wonderful, amazing, splendiferous shop EVER!

Just looking in the window I could tell it was definitely a Bear Friendly shop....but it got even better INSIDE....

LOLLIES!!!!! Bags and bags of lollies!!! And more bears..... 

A shop full of bears and lollies! (Spot anyone you know...heehee)......

Back outside in the mall, we strolled through the Windsor Mall Craft Markets. We met some interesting people and Mumma Bear bought some lovely coasters from a man who makes wooden coasters decorated with old pub coasters from his Way Back Collection. But the bestest stall in the whole market was...the HONEY MAN!!

Of course Mumma Bear had to buy me some honey! We even bought a jar for my Twitter friend Mr Bear @MrBearAndRocky.....

After all that walking around, it was dangerously close to lunchtime. Mumma Bear wanted to go to a place that was the oldest pub in Australia, but there were some very rough looking humans hanging around inside....definitely not bear friendly! So instead we went to the Royal Exchange Hotel which is a pub with a really cool beer garden where we could have lunch.

I was happy with this as all I wanted was a good old Pub Lunch. And when I saw the blackboard menu, I was set! .....

Sausages for me please! Of course Mumma Bear got it wrong and I ended up with fish and chips - but that's ok, fish is good too and the fish and chips at the Royal Exchange was A-MAZ-ING!

Our meals came with steak-cut chips. You know the chips are great when Mumma Bear eats nearly all her chips (she normally only has 3 or 4, but not today!). We also all had salad on our plates. I didn't bring any rabbits with me so there was no need for MY salad, but Mumma Bear ate hers and said it was a really nice salad with different lettuces (lettuce is bad enough, why would you want different types!), grated carrot, spring onion, red onion, tomato and beetroot. I still don't see the joy, but she said yum.....enough already with the salad!

When we got home, I did a quick inventory on my stash from the lolly shop......

Ah, good, all there! And a great day was had by all!!

Bill xx