Before I go...

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 17:15 on 05 May 2023

I'm just packing my spare T-shirts ready to go on holiday again (and it looks like it's going to be another damp one - I wonder if I can encourage Auntie Fiona to invest in some sort of big-Ted-bear-sized waterproof outer garment to keep me dry). Before I go, I thought I'd tell you about...

Hurrah for holidays (pt 2)

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 17:48 on 29 March 2023

…Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very wet day but I still managed to visit six more St Mary's churches in Essex (I found one of them was actually in Suffolk when I checked later). I got rather damp and had to sit on a wet mossy wall for photos - which really wasn't good enough as it made my...

Hurrah for holidays (pt 1)

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 18:18 on 27 March 2023

Well, I'm part-way through my holiday in (mostly) Essex. And what a palaver! On the way down to Clacton from Kib (somewhere near Cambridge) the car suddenly made an alarming sound, a red light came on and a message came up on the display saying "stop now your engine is broken". Auntie ...

Hello readers!

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 10:28 on 08 March 2023

I've not said much lately 'cos I've been really busy having my annual major snooze - some bears call this hibernation. But it's getting a bit lighter out so it's time to wake up. Also I have to get ready for my next holiday later this month! I'm going to be staying in Essex - which isn't a totally n...

Happy New Year

Added by Fiona Carruthers on 01 January 2023

Happy New Year to all my lovely readers! I've woken up from my hibernation again, this time to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays. I've had a good time - I hope you have too. There was only one incident with gravy, but that was soon wiped off my fur. I've also been having a go...

Bears I have met

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 19:41 on 10 December 2022

Coming briefly out of hibernation (it's very cold you know), I’ve just added a new page to my website which contains photos of the bears (and other assorted animals) that I’ve found in the churches that I’ve visited, together with sarcastic sartorial comments on what they are w...

Another new website!

Added by Fiona Carruthers on 25 November 2022

OK, I promise this is the last time I will have a new website (and it is less than two years since the last one). You know it's got the same ursine resource locator (url) as before 'cos you've got here to read this - that's the https://www.bigtedonline.uk/ bit of text that you stick in your browser ...

Last trip of the year?

Added on 14 October 2022

Hello Dear Reader, I've been off on a little jollyday again 'cos Auntie Fiona didn't fancy cooking on her birthday. We stayed in a hotel in Warwick; when I say "we" it would be more accurate to say they stayed in the hotel and I was stuffed in the boot of the car and left to en...

Gone fishin!

Added on 01 September 2022

Hello Dear Mr/Ms Reader, I've gone off on my hollybobs again; this time mostly to Oxfordshire ('tho I do hope to sneak in another county or two to annoy Auntie Fiona - she has to do the techie bits to help me with this website). I will add the details of all the lovely St Mary's I've...

News from Plumtree!

Added on 31 July 2022

I see my distant cousin Big Tod has come out of his two-year-long COVID hibernation and is now taking on his new role (that's my OLD role) of looking after the children in the Children's Corner at St Mary's in Plumtree. That's him in the picture on the left. His reading's not up to much tho' - "The ...