Author: aloysius-bear

Luke and James, the co-hosts of the Ink to Film podcast, sent my primary human some swag and asked it she could post some pictures of it in the UK. As taking pictures of things (usually me) at interesting places is rather my specialty, I took up the challenge! First, though, my glamourous assistant Stanley…

Hello! Stanley here. Bear has kindly allowed me to post some pictures from our recent holiday to Vicarage House in Norfolk. He went with the humans about 18 months ago and really enjoyed it, so I decided I’d tag along this time: It’s a very pretty house, with large and varied grounds, plus a pool…

On our last full day in Norway, we went on an excellent excursion, starting with the Flam mountain railway on a very comfy train: The views were great the whole way and we stopped off briefly for a photo opportunity at a gorgeous waterfall: We had a brief amount of time in Flam itself, so…

Down on the waterfront in Bergen, there’s an area of wooden buildings called Bryggen. It’s where the Hanseatic League of German merchants lived and worked when they first arrived in Bergen in the 1300s. It has been destroyed and rebuilt several times, but keeps its historic nature with authentic building materials and architecture: The buildings…

Our second main stop on the Norway trip was Bergen, which we reached by a lovely seven-hour train journey. It’s a pretty town and our hotel was next to a park with an interesting statue in it: The park also commemorated Norway’s first Prime Minister, who always seemed to have a seagull on his head…

The humans and I spent last week in Norway, which was so photogenic that I’m going to have to do multiple posts about it! We went as part of a Rail Discoveries tour group, which turned out to be excellent as it meant all travel and accommodation was sorted out for us, we had a…

Last weekend, the humans and I went to Puntcon in Cambridge, where the Master of Ceremonies took his job very seriously: We, on the other hand, just relaxed and enjoyed ourselves: Joining us was our lovely friend, Hugh: And we also shared our punt with some other interesting and convivial people: There was some ill-advised…

I hope people aren’t getting bored of posts about Reading Retreats – it does seem to be what my human and I do most at the moment. The Matlock location had the distinction of being walking distance from the station so there was none of the usual taxi-related stress, which was nice. We had the…

As part of All the Stations #HaveAnAdventure, the humans and I travelled by train to a station we had never visited before – Waterbeach! The station has only two platforms, which are staggered in a way we hadn’t seen before: There’s a shelter… And a Help Point… But no bins! There is also this card…

The humans bought some flat pack shelves, so Stanley and I decided to help with the construction. Stanley sorted and looked after the bits, while I tried to make sense of the instructions: Then I had to make sure we had all the right tools for the job: This automatic doohickey made things a lot…