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[gotobedbears]

Hi Guys,

Anyone in the south east?

Yes?

No?

Maybe?

Let's get together and do beary things like have picnics and stuff. I am serious you know, i don't know ANY beary folk personally, only through the www. So let's get together huh?

Penny :p

[Melanie Jayne]

hiiiiiiiiiiii Penny

Glad you have joined Penny and I really do hope when others join here they will also get to know your great sense of humour

[Chris Russell]

Get a focus on getting together.......take a look at the Artists and Makers Clubs Category in the Exhibitors section as well. This site majors on giving everyone the tools for getting together so cast your nets a bit wider. What do you think??

Remember it's early days yet, the site has only been going for 2-3 weeks, but we can already see how you are helping it gather momentum with your enthusiasm.

Many thanks

Chris

[Vicky Allum]

Hi Penny

Another South Eastener here - well Essex girl if the truth must be known! I joined a couple of days ago - nice to see you here!

[gotobedbears]

Hiya Vicky!

Yeah, i thought i would join this forum as a change from the other one - i know this is new but maybe if more people join it will be better than the beary forums that exist at the moment.

[Eric-Claude]

Penny yohooo lol

Glad to see you here and your humour with :D :D

I read you were looking for southern friend : I am from South !!! Yus, South of France ;) ;)

I can't say I know lot of beary folk personnaly as well. Glad Internet helps us that way !!

Read you soon

ERIC

[shebob bears]

Hi Folks,

I'm really not quite sure which section I should be in. You see I was born in Edinburgh and my folks were both Scottish; I grew up in the Dales of Yorkshire (wonderful place for horse riding); and just seven years ago I remarried to a wonderful Southener and we now live in a little village near Crawley in Sussex.

So folks, please tell me if I am in the wrong category. All my life London has been in the South, but now that I am in the South, I can't get used to the fact that London is in the North. Ah well, home is where the heart is, and right now I am perfectly happy.

Must go now, I have a teddy bear waiting to have his ears stitched on.

Speak to you all soon.
Best wishes.
Sheila.

[Eric-Claude]

Hello Sheila,

I don't want to feel I am parked in a category or into a box or anything else.

I don't make any difference between people that live in different Great British areas or elsewhere.

I dont' make any difference with any arctophile either.

Thinking this way, might be the opposit of what Internet offers to us all I mean a world wilde communication.

So ... I am against a geographic tidying because what we reassemble us on here is first our passion, hobby, interests and surely not the any location.

Well, now if someone is from March and having green feet and ears I don't mind to have a chat lol

Read you soon

ERIC

[shebob bears]

Yes, I quite agree with everything you say. I don't like to be put in a little box either. I only mentioned my travels from Scotland to the South to show that I am still the same happy, cheerful self wherever I live. Also I am sure all my bears would agree with that too!!

Regards,
Sheila.

[Doodlebears]

Hi Penny, Melanie, Eric, Vicky and Sheila.... whoops and Chris!
I'm not sure if Buckinghamshire does come under the South East or not, it varies from TV weather maps, some days we're south east sometimes not.
Any-hoo nice to be here with you all!
Eric don't forget to email the photographs to me please. I'll finish your profile when I have them.

TTFN
Jane :)

[Eric-Claude]

Hiya Jane xxxxxxxx

Yes I will send you a terrefic pic lol

Mwahhhh Good Week End

ERIC

[Vicky Allum]

Hi Jane:) :) :) !

[Jenny]

Hi Jane...I am in the midlands but I'll say 'hello' anyway!!

Jennyxx

[thethingaboutbears]

Hello everyone,
Pleased to meet you all.
I'm definitely from the South, a little village called Mongeham near Deal in Kent to be precise.
I am really enjoying reading all the messages on this forum and posting a few too.
Nice to see Eric has attached himself to this list lol
Will post again soon
Regards
Sam
The Thing About Bears

[Vicky Allum]

Hi Sam

Nice to meet you!:)

[Steffi]

Hi Sheila

somewhere our paths must have crossed. I was born in Oldham when it was still part of Lanacashire. The rest of my family were born in Yorkshire, but that is a whole other story, suffice to say that my brother sports the initials MCC.

When I was very young we lived on Saddleworth Moor and moved to Italy when I was just 4. Eventually we moved back to Yorkshire but 6 miles out of Bradford this time on Baildon Moor. We were only there 4 years when we went o/seas again and ended up in Iran (pre and up until the revolution). When we returned to the UK we sold the house in Yorks and went to live in Sussex. For near enough 25 years we lived on the coast in West Sussex, so further South than you are now. My ex-husband's father was teacher in Crawley, but that was many moons ago.

Just over 4 years ago I met a Scotsman, we married two years ago and are now living in the Ayrshire countryside. Ok not quite Edinburgh but as I married a Glaswegian there wasn't much chance of us living in the East. So for a few years you and I must have both lived in Sussex at the same time.

So someone tell me which of the sections do I belong in?:confused:

Hugs

Steffi

[Geralye]

I'm trying hard to be an East Midlander, having lived in Nottinghamshire for the last three and a half years. However, I'm Surrey born, and spent many years living in Sussex.

When in Sussex, I lived in Seaford and worked in Brighton, so I desparately miss the sea (living in Nottingham, I couldn't really get much further from it).

cheers,
G:confused:

[Vicky Allum]

Hi Geralye:)

I guess that means you get to join in on lots of regions!:) Nice to meet you.

[shebob bears]

Hi Steffi, Yes, you are right, we must have both lived in Sussex for a while. I think the wonderful thing about relocating is that you make so many new friends right through life. When I was living in Yorkshire, I was just the other side of Baildon Moor and frequently went horse riding all round that area. Ahhhhhhh, carefree days, where did they go!!?

I think the lovely thing about bear making is that wherever I go the bears come too. I am rather fortunate that I now have my own sewing room. My husband refers to it as my 'den' and on the door is a sign saying 'Teddy Bear Zone'. I think I will photograph it and try to upload it. Now that poses a problem. It means I will have to post this, switch off, take the photograph, put it on the computer, edit it, and then go back on to the forum and upload the picture. The next stumbling block is that I still haven't a clue how to reduce the pic to 300 pixies (or whatever they are called).

Bye for now. I am going to put my photographer's hat on now and see what happens.

Sheila x

Hi, I'm back again, and yes, I have reduced the picture. Well, not me really. Robert, my hubby, walked into the room and talked me through it. Should have written it all down though, ready for next time. I used the paper clip thingy, but it insisted on sending it as an attachment. Oh well, it's there now.

Regards,
Sheila.

[Judi Russell]

Hi everyone,

we are not trying to put you into boxes or separate you from each other, the idea was; if you know who is in your area you may be able to get together and meet. You know, swap ideas, help upload pictures, that sort of thing. We want people from all over this country and Europe to join together and just talk about the things we love, Bears, cats, dogs, horses, hobbies, we are after all just a very large community. These days real time communities are few and far between, guess I was lucky living in Bradwell on Sea in Essex, fantastic community there. Here also in Porthcawl back to the village I was born in, but I do love to meet you all out there on the internet. So keep the threads going, you are all such interesting people.
Shiela, your riding on the moors sounds lovely, I do all mine now on the beaches and sand dunes, OOOOOh I know I am a lucky thing. :6013:
Eric, where are all the French bear makers, we dont mind you speaking French on the forum if that would encourage more to join, give it a go.

Judi

[All Bear]

Didn't realise you were all gathering in here! I've snuck in through the back door. So, yep, I'm in the glorious South East, Maidstone County town of Kent to be precise. I'm a few minutes walk from the town, the river, the post office and Tesco's. Handy eh?

I'm in the process of moving house, but this has been my little corner of the South East for the past twenty three years ...
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[JulieJ]

Hi Everyone! I'm from the South East! I was born in Epsom Hospital, Surrey, I lived in Chessington, Surrey for 28 years (no quips about the zoo please coz I've heard them all), when the zoo was a zoo and not the World of Adventures. I moved to Bisley, Surrey 1989 and here I've stayed. I went to the Bracknell Fair last Sunday and met a few of you guy's which was lovely. Hope to meet more of you soon.

[GiselleTeddyLuv]

Hello I have been a member on this site for while now but havn't been on in months, I am based near Gatwick and would to meet more people like me wo just love bears! We should def meet up penny if ya want, where about's are u?

Giselle. :6034:

[lovenshire]

South East what? I am from South East Missouri! ha ha ha

[dutchy.bears]

I think they mean South east England.... Which would be the part closet to Europe :)
I live in the Provence South Holland which is bam smack in the in the middle along the west coast of the Netherlands..... Now that's confusing :6014:

[Judi Russell]

And I am from South Wales, one of the most beautiful parts of the country, (now who is going to argue with that) We live close to the edge of the cliffs, then its the wonderful Bristol Channel crashing in on our coastline. Last night when the tide was coming in, we had a sea mist that made driving almost impossible. The kind of night that makes you think of pirates and smugglers, the coast and sand dunes were famous for neer do wells and illicit goings on, bit like today really!!!!!!!:D Just an added bit of info, along our bit of coast we have the second highest tide in the world, 40 feet, so glad I live at the top of the cliff!

[LindyLaine]

I live in the south east of England, and while I could definitely get further south than Deal, if I was to travel more than half a mile east, I'd get my feet wet! :D

(I've just uploaded a profile picture and now I want to see if it works...)

[lovenshire]

I used to live in the foothills and the Pacific ocean was not far!

[LindyLaine]

In my case I'd walk straight into the English Channel... on a clear day you can see France from the beach. :)

[lovenshire]

WOW, sounds wonderful.

[LindyLaine]

I love living here, its a shingle beach rather than sand... so the town is smaller and quieter than some other seaside towns nearby. Over the years I've lived in other places but always come back after a few years - there's just something about the place that draws you home. :)

[lovenshire]

Sounds wonderful.
This is the most beautiful place I've ever lived. I guess the humidity keeps everything green. I want to be near my children and grandchildren. They are all in California. I don't like California even though I spent most of my life there. It is the most beautiful state in the Union and has everything from beaches, to snowy mountains and beautiful deserts and 40 million people to fight for a place to see them! We used to have to make reservations to go camping a year in advance... If you have never seen the beautiful Redwoods or Sequoias you just haven't seen a tree. What beauty!

[Judi Russell]

I do agree with you, California is a very diverse state. I just loved the Mojave desert and going up to Mamouth Mountains, where the Redwoods and Sequoias are all around you. Riding up there was wonderful, and Yosemite was just a wonderful expirence. Now that my friend has died, there is no-one to visit anymore, but one day I will go back, just because!

[lovenshire]

We used to camp at Red's meadow up on Mamoth Mountain at 8,000 feet. It was wonderful. We always brought apples for the pack mules. I guess they always remembered us. They have a shower that is from a hot spring there...wonderful! A five mile hike brought you to ranbow falls. What a beautiful sight that was.