This is just a quick blog update to say that I am currently aiming to return to Covent Garden Apple Market some time in April or May this year, as well as looking into Camden and Greenwich Market.
I'll update this blog when I have a definite date.
Suzi will be launching her debut book, Matilda Bear and Father Bear: I Love You Father Bear, at the London Mind Body Spirit festival in Earls Court, Stand 73, from the 30th May to 4th June.
Please come along and get a signed copy of the book!
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Returning To Covent Garden Apple Market
Happy, Happy, Happy!! The bears and myself will be returning to Covent Garden Apple Market on Tuesday 29th November. I can`t wait! We will be there 2 days every week, one of those days being Tuesdays, the second still to be confirmed. I am so excited I could pop! Please come along and see us, and join in the holiday celebrations as we move closer to that magical time of year xx
Saturday, 13 August 2011
London Riots
Hi everybody…
Well, I am eventually attempting a blog! As many of you know I am useless with technology, I would much rather live without it, but as this world now dictates that one of the main ways forward is with these dreaded machines, I have had to admit defeat, and am trying to get along with them. So, until I`m living my dream of a log cabin hidden away in a remote cove along the Western Australian coastline, I will persevere with technology as I do realise it is a good way of linking communities, individuals, businesses etc around the world.
Although many of you have asked me to start a blog so that I can show you new bears and keep you up-to-date on events etc, the main reason for starting this today is because of all that is happening in London at the moment, and now spreading across various parts of UK.
I`m not going to go into a rant about the rights and wrongs of this (I will leave that to my son, whose blog can be found by clicking here), but I would be grateful to hear suggestions of ways in which you feel we can help. Many people have been left homeless, without jobs, and many have lost the businesses that they have worked hard for many years to get established. Since my illness, I found myself and my son in a difficult situation where, being unable to work, I couldn`t support us financially, and received little to no help from the benefits system. Whilst this is barely comparable to the difficulties now faced by those who have lost their homes and businesses in the recent riots, I have lost a substantial amount due to factors beyond my control and can imagine how they must be feeling right now... The complete and utter despair, the hopelessness, and the inability to be able to see any light in the future. It is going to be very, very difficult for a lot of them, not just financially, but emotionally too, and they need support.
Through my experience I have discovered that the benefits system we have here doesn`t work, and it baffles me as to why it is called `benefits` because it‘s hardly the most helpful of systems, so these people will really struggle to get help from the government… And the little help they may get will be a long time coming. They need help now.
I have been trying to think of ways in which we can help raise money for them. Creating a bear purely for this cause came to mind, to raffle or auction, but that`s nowhere near enough… We obviously need to raise far more money to help these people. Creating a bear is a start, but we need to do so much more.
If any of you have any ideas, please email me at animalledger@aol.com and let me know… Through no fault of their own they are suddenly left with nothing, and when they look behind them, there is nothing to lighten the load either. If we all put our heads together we may be able to make the journey these people now have in front of them a little easier.
It is hard, hard work, but with a little love and support that load can be lightened.
I always like to believe positive comes from negative… It is a belief that gives me strength in bad situations, and I pray that something positive will come from all this. When the tsunami hit Japan it destroyed many, many people`s lives, and it will take them many years to rebuild, if at all in some people`s cases. But one positive thing that has emerged from the Japan disaster is that they have now moved their focus onto solar energy. The damage caused at one of their main nuclear power plants caused huge concerns, making them review their energy source, hence now they are pouring millions and millions of dollars into research of solar energy. A very positive result from a very negative situation.
Let`s pray this kind of revelation happens with the London riots… Maybe the government will now realise that youth centres around the inner cities are very much needed, and that by making cuts here is actually creating more problems. We would all benefit from somewhere to go, someone to listen, giving us support and understanding… Something these youth centres had provided for people who couldn`t find that elsewhere.
Before the riots, I had an incredibly eye opening and sobering experience just after Christmas on Monmouth Street, Covent Garden. After this experience I started to try to think of ways in which the lives of the homeless could be made a little easier, and asked people to donate sleeping bags etc for distribution across the city. I called this BE (`Be Excellent… to one another`… because that`s exactly what we should all be). At the time I was only asking for donations of mountaineering sleeping bags, warm clothes etc, but as I would like to do something similar with those who have been affected by the riots, I am now asking for money. However, I`m unsure as to how to go about that in the correct way to be able to assure people donating that their money is going to the right place. If any of you have any experience or knowledge of how to legally sort out the finances for this, I`d be really grateful to hear from you.
Please let me know any ideas, either how we can raise the money, or how we can set this up as a registered charity by emailing me at animalledger@aol.com and I will come back to this blog with any ideas I may have too.
Thank you so much… Together we can make a difference to the lives of these people…
And hey, I`ve started a blog… Pigs might fly after all!
Well, I am eventually attempting a blog! As many of you know I am useless with technology, I would much rather live without it, but as this world now dictates that one of the main ways forward is with these dreaded machines, I have had to admit defeat, and am trying to get along with them. So, until I`m living my dream of a log cabin hidden away in a remote cove along the Western Australian coastline, I will persevere with technology as I do realise it is a good way of linking communities, individuals, businesses etc around the world.
Although many of you have asked me to start a blog so that I can show you new bears and keep you up-to-date on events etc, the main reason for starting this today is because of all that is happening in London at the moment, and now spreading across various parts of UK.
I`m not going to go into a rant about the rights and wrongs of this (I will leave that to my son, whose blog can be found by clicking here), but I would be grateful to hear suggestions of ways in which you feel we can help. Many people have been left homeless, without jobs, and many have lost the businesses that they have worked hard for many years to get established. Since my illness, I found myself and my son in a difficult situation where, being unable to work, I couldn`t support us financially, and received little to no help from the benefits system. Whilst this is barely comparable to the difficulties now faced by those who have lost their homes and businesses in the recent riots, I have lost a substantial amount due to factors beyond my control and can imagine how they must be feeling right now... The complete and utter despair, the hopelessness, and the inability to be able to see any light in the future. It is going to be very, very difficult for a lot of them, not just financially, but emotionally too, and they need support.
Through my experience I have discovered that the benefits system we have here doesn`t work, and it baffles me as to why it is called `benefits` because it‘s hardly the most helpful of systems, so these people will really struggle to get help from the government… And the little help they may get will be a long time coming. They need help now.
I have been trying to think of ways in which we can help raise money for them. Creating a bear purely for this cause came to mind, to raffle or auction, but that`s nowhere near enough… We obviously need to raise far more money to help these people. Creating a bear is a start, but we need to do so much more.
If any of you have any ideas, please email me at animalledger@aol.com and let me know… Through no fault of their own they are suddenly left with nothing, and when they look behind them, there is nothing to lighten the load either. If we all put our heads together we may be able to make the journey these people now have in front of them a little easier.
It is hard, hard work, but with a little love and support that load can be lightened.
I always like to believe positive comes from negative… It is a belief that gives me strength in bad situations, and I pray that something positive will come from all this. When the tsunami hit Japan it destroyed many, many people`s lives, and it will take them many years to rebuild, if at all in some people`s cases. But one positive thing that has emerged from the Japan disaster is that they have now moved their focus onto solar energy. The damage caused at one of their main nuclear power plants caused huge concerns, making them review their energy source, hence now they are pouring millions and millions of dollars into research of solar energy. A very positive result from a very negative situation.
Let`s pray this kind of revelation happens with the London riots… Maybe the government will now realise that youth centres around the inner cities are very much needed, and that by making cuts here is actually creating more problems. We would all benefit from somewhere to go, someone to listen, giving us support and understanding… Something these youth centres had provided for people who couldn`t find that elsewhere.
Before the riots, I had an incredibly eye opening and sobering experience just after Christmas on Monmouth Street, Covent Garden. After this experience I started to try to think of ways in which the lives of the homeless could be made a little easier, and asked people to donate sleeping bags etc for distribution across the city. I called this BE (`Be Excellent… to one another`… because that`s exactly what we should all be). At the time I was only asking for donations of mountaineering sleeping bags, warm clothes etc, but as I would like to do something similar with those who have been affected by the riots, I am now asking for money. However, I`m unsure as to how to go about that in the correct way to be able to assure people donating that their money is going to the right place. If any of you have any experience or knowledge of how to legally sort out the finances for this, I`d be really grateful to hear from you.
Please let me know any ideas, either how we can raise the money, or how we can set this up as a registered charity by emailing me at animalledger@aol.com and I will come back to this blog with any ideas I may have too.
Thank you so much… Together we can make a difference to the lives of these people…
And hey, I`ve started a blog… Pigs might fly after all!
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