Little Bear is sad because his granny died

On Saturday little bear got a phone call from his brother to let him know that his gran had died. She was quite old, over one hundered, and had not been very well. Little bear was all in a bit of a cofluffer, and wondered if he should drive down the country to be with his family quickly, but in the end he didn't drive down just then.

But lb did manage to get a message to his dad while his dad was on a train without any mobile telephone reception, which the he was quite rightly very proud of.

Lb wasn't as sharp at his work as he normally is, because normally at his work he is very clever and brainy and good at talking but at the moment he was being a bit not like that really. Lb was kindof wandering about the house a bit when he wasn't at work, not sure about things. He said that he didn't feel too sad really, but that he felt a bit funny and wobbly. He was even more like a little tiny bearish animal than normal.

Big bear didn't know what to do really.

Bb came down and tried to look after the little bear a bit more than he normally would. He made sure that the lb had lots of nice clean clothes to wear, and that he drank plenty of water, and that everything that the little one needed was there. However, lb was still a bit discombobulated, but at least he was discombobulated in a freshly laundered shirt and not dehydrated.

But of course, one thing that the lb needed most of all was for the bb and lb to have lots of lovely warm hugs. So they did.

Now that the bears have their rings

Well, after a long time waiting (four weeks, which is a very long time for bears) their rings arrived from being made at the special shop, and it was very exciting. Little bear went to pick them up, and got them back to his house and ready for when the bb was to come down that weekend.

Big bears got a big ring and little bear got a ring that was not quite as big. But little bears' ring was a bit too little so he took it to the shop to get it made bigger. But it was still too little!

Then little bear tried on big's ring, and big tried on little's ring and can you guess? They both fitted just fine! So they swopped them over and was all ok.

Now both rings feel good, and when the bears look at their hands they can see the ring and then know that there is always another bear there for them.

Visiting new people

There is a man, who is a Bear with a capital BUH who lives on the road halfway between the big bear and the little bear. He has a big white beard. He said hello to the bb online and they chatted for a bit. The man like chatting a lot, so they talked for a bit on the interweb.

The bb does not really have any other freinds with big white beards, and he was a bit worried that the man liked to chat a lot and wanted to meet up in real life. Bb spoke with some chums who said; why not, you have nothing to lose, and you might find a freind, and that is a very precious thing to find.

So bb was driving to the lb's house and he decided that he would go and meet the man with the white beard for a nice cup of tea and maybe a biscuit, but not more than one biscuit becayse bb is trying to get a little bit less big.

But when bb got there the man with the white beard was not really interested in a nice cup of tea, but was more interested in touching the bb in places that normally just the lb touches. This made the bb feel bit funny, because the bb did not really want this man to touch those places.

But the bb tried to be polite, because the man was not a bad man. Maybe he just didn't have a lot of people that he could hang out with and the bb could imagine that if that was the way it was for this man it might not be nice.

The bb was still able to get back to his car and get going to see little bear quickly, and then he did feel funny for all the rest of the way home.

Bb and lb like to talk with their freinds and have a cup of tea and things. But it seems that not everybody likes to have cups of tea the same way.

Bb is not going to let this affect how he thinks about everyone with a white beard. Especially as one day, the bb will probably be a bit like the man and have a white beard too.

Big Bear feels all funny at a party

There was this time, when everybody in the world is supposed to be happy, and the big and little bears had lots of freinds around for a nice party. But big bear was feeling not the best. He was all a bit wanting-to-be-by-himself and a lot of not-wanting-to-talk-to-anybody. Which is not like a big bear when there is a party at all.

Big bear stayed in the kitchen and did the washing up, and he worried about what might be wrong with him. He decided that perhaps it was because he feels that he needs to be accepted by his parents, and just maybe sometimes he isn't.

So the big bear tried to do what a clever man (who was paid by the hour) taught him one time. This was; think what is the worst that can happen and to think what the chances of that are, no really, what they actually are.

So big bear thought to himself. He thought; well maybe the worst that could happen would be that he won't talk to his parents. And he thought; well that is probably not awfully likely to happen anyway now is it.

Big bear asked little bear about it. And little bear said; they're 90% fine, so stop fretting, and for the rest, fuck it. He is clever, that little bear.

And whatever happens with the bb's parents, we know that lb's mummy and daddy, for all their funnynesses, are very proud of the bears.

But sometimes the bb still feels a bit funny.