Walkin about in Harrogate

Yesterday's scores:

• Gills: no
• Simpsons: yes
• Tesco: no
• Nose Hugs Surprizisity Score: 9.5/10
• Day Score: 7/10

HULLO NOT-A-BEARS!

OK. Time to tell yu a bit abowt where we all stayd.

It waz in a town calld Harrogate. Wiv apologies to non-UK peeps hoo mite not get wat I meen, if Harrogate wer a person, it wud be Nicholas Parsons. Cleen, cheery, well-kept, old, tasteful, an not very cool, but NIce, wiv a capitol NI. Oh, an lots ov trees. Not that he haz eny trees growin on 'im. Tho he may well be bein preservd wiv a bit ov lime, he's that old.

photo: Nicholas Parsons. And this is wen he HAD hair.

Larst Tewsday I went off to explor the town that wud be my home* fer the nex few days.

It all lookt fairly harmless, if a bit flowery, but then I fownd THIS playse:

There waz NO WAY I waz goin in there!

They hav lots ov green bits wiv flowers an on wun green bit I spottid this statew, sadly disappoyntin in its pantlessness (aha! Pantlessness...Nicholas.... pantlessness...knickerless.... the similarity deepens...):

"Look, Ma, no pants!"

They had buslin streets:

an the local Bears obviussly wernt doin their bit, not on the marrygolds, enyway. Look how tiny they ar! I tryd to comfert this wun an squoze wun out to help it along:

This cafe an tea room on the corner is calld "Bettys" an annoyd Daddy cos it dident hav an apostrophy (teachers on holiday- pah!). But we still cayme bak to it dinner layter. It waz yum. An they did hewge caykes, too, an even had speshol choklits fer Bears!:

Hey, wat happend to this? I dident eet it! I bet Mummy's got it sumware an is hopin I've fergotten bowt it....

An I took this pic throo their windo speshly fer my frend Mousie. It is speshol bred jus fer mouse-types. If yu look closely yu'll see a littol mouse shape mayde owt ov dough on the top:Finally, it had lots of WOODS! This is the start ov a path into sum woods there. Can yu can see a cheeky grey skwirrol runnin along the path? I dident kno it waz there wen I took the foto!:heer's a close up ov 'im: I layter trakt him down. He waz tryin to be camo-flarged but yu carnt out-flarge a trayned Spy:

"Wa-heyyy!"

Hope that givs yu a taster ov Harrogate. If yu want to see mor, this website duzz 3D vertual tors ov the town, so yu can clik on an hav a gud nose arownd!

Bye fer now!

*home: home is where yor pants ar, an my Emergensy Hug Pants cayme wiv me.