Escape to York

Added by Big Ted at 16:39 on 05 April 2025

Dear Reader, After particularly dull winter (Ok, I may have hibernated through much of it, but Uncle Les and Auntie Fiona have told me all about how grey and gloomy it was) it is great to be out and about again. This time I’ve returned to Yorkshire, which (according to my very detailed records...

Happy Christmas everyone!

Added by Big Ted on 24 December 2024

Hello dear reader, and a Happy Christmas to you! I have had a lovely year, with various holidays and outings. I have been to new places and met new people. Uncle Les has taken lots of photos of me and Auntie Fiona has helped me put them (that's the photos, of course) on this website and to write all...

Wales revisited

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 14:30 on 22 September 2024

Dear Reader, I've just made another trip to that there Wales place. This time I actually stayed in a cottage in Wales, in a town called Bala for short (or Y Bala for long). "Bala" means "outflow of a lake" in Welsh; the optional "Y" bit means "the", so the long name means "the outflow of a lake" (wh...

Big Ted visits Bisley

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 14:40 on 20 July 2024

Dear Reader, I've been away on holiday again for a few days. This time I stayed in Bisley in Gloucestershire. This is a very nice Cotswold-y village, but it is a bit hilly. The important thing is that it's got a pub called The Bear Inn which I just HAD to see - because, as you should have noticed (a...

A Suffolk (and Norfolk) adventure

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 14:18 on 16 May 2024

Hello again dear Reader. I hope you are well and enjoying the varied weather (I hate the rain 'cos it makes my splendid fur damp and sort of sticky)! I've just come back from a lovely holiday in Suffolk, where I visited 15 new (or rather old) St Mary's churches. I also visited 6 churches...

Out and about again

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 18:15 on 04 February 2024

Well, this is exciting. Uncle Les and Auntie Fiona have bought a new "Tedmobile" and I've just had my first trip out in it. There's lots of space in the back for a bear to lie down and snooze between churches, and it's nice and clean so there's no chance of messing up said bear's splendid fur and ni...

Happy Christmas!

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 16:45 on 21 December 2023

Hello dear reader, and a Happy Crimble to you! I've woken up from my annual hidernation [I think you mean "hibernation", but it's quite an appropriate typo, Big Ted] (aka "the Big Snooze") to help celebrate the festive season. Someone mentioned the magic words "choco...

Some Exciting News! UPDATED

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 11:15 on 06 September 2023

After having some disappointment with my holibobs this year (due to the car breaking down - twice - and then a cottage not being ready for me) I've been having a quiet summer at home. THEY even went away for three nights and didn't take me with them! I had quite a spectacular sulk as a resul...

Grumbling bear

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 14:10 on 08 July 2023

Hello again readers, I was s'posed to be on holiday again today but the naughty car is playing up again so we came back home after just three hours (one of which was spent at the side of a very nasty motorway)! I met another nice AA man though (other breakdown services are available) and he stop...

...and I'm back

Added by Fiona Carruthers at 12:21 on 20 May 2023

Hello again lovely reader. I'm back from my latest holiday. We were staying near King's Lynn in the left-hand bit of Norfolk (most people use the term "West" when referring to locations in this way, Big Ted.) so I visited lot's more Norfolk churches; I've visited 62 now, wh...