While its often said that good things come in three’s* (we made a list down below for you to decide), it’s a proven fact that great things come in five’s. Like Bear’s grrreat new year competition called ‘5 a day Fridays’.
The competition will be on Facebook and twitter every Friday for the next 5 Fridays and each week 5 friends win 5 boxes full of tasty ‘5 a day’ fruit yoyos. Grrreat or what?
*Comes in threes….
3 blind mice
3 little pigs
Emu’s toes
3 wise men
Musketeers and sometimes cadbury cream eggs
Nothing for a ages…then buses
Sneezes
Triangles (points)
The Three Stooges
Triplets
Reduce reuse recycle
Monkeys, Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil
Tricycle wheels
Harry Potter and friends
Trilogies
The three amigos
The kittens that lost their mittens
Did we miss some? Add your own three things. Good or bad
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BEAR Nibbles on
January 9, 2012 at 10:19 am.
Seasons Grrreetings! Our Christmas news has more stuffing than a family pack of paxo. So rest on your laurels, turn up the carols and enjoy some festive bear hugs…
News from the Farms
When the sun heads south, so do our team of fruit foragers. Not just to top up their tan (maybe a teeny weeny bit) but to bring you back the best of the southern hemisphere spoils.
This season Hayley and Andrew went on an epic adventure through Peru, Ecuador and Costa Rica in search of the pawfect mangos and pineapples.
When Andrew met this triple crowned pineapple we thought it a match made in the hair-salon.
BEAR’s Advent Cave Competition
We have a BEARilliant competition going on facebook and twitter where you can win Christmassy boxes of bear nibbles every day in our ‘Bear’s Advent Cave’.
Its bonkers easy to enter to spread some festive cheer.
20% off – Pawfect Stocking Fillers
We’d be thrilled if between the little oranges and sweetie selection boxes, you’d make room for a bear or two. If you pack a yoyo in your stockings we’ll paw-romise to help you stay growling with goodness with 2 of your 5 a day. Grrr
To stock up your cave get 20% off everything in Bear’s shop with this code:XMASBEAR11
(valid until 22/12/2011)
Christmas Tree Critters
We have been busy sprucing up our cave with Christmas decorations made from our yoyo fact cards. It’s so easy and grrreat fun too. All you need is your bear family fact cards, some glue, glitter and string. They make pawfect tree decorations or table decorations for Christmas day. You can either sandwich the cards back to back or leave one sided if you’re sick of cheesy cracker jokes and prefer some grrreat bear facts.
BEAR’s top 5 Festive facts
- US scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world’s presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.
- MANY parts of the Christmas tree can actually be eaten, with the needles being a good source of Vitamin C. We’re not recommending you eat your tree though!
- SINCE 1947 Oslo has sent an Xmas tree to London to thank us for our help in the Second World War.
- THERE are 13 Santas in Iceland, each leaving a gift for children. They come down from the mountain one by one, starting on December 12 and have names like Spoon Licker, Door Sniffer and Meat Hook.
- MINCE pies – You should eat mince pies in silence, and make a wish with each one.
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BEAR Nibbles on
December 14, 2011 at 10:45 am.
Seasons Grrreetings, just a bit of bear news to get you in the Christmasy mood….grrr we have a BEARilliant competition on facebook and twitter with the chance to win Christmasy bear nibbles every day in our BEAR advent Cave.
Here at Bear we are growling about our nibbles as they are pawfect for stocking fillers for adults and kids, a healthy treat to enjoy amongst the chocolate.
We have been busy making Christmas decorations for bear’s cave! So easy and fun too, with a couple of fact cards back to back and some glitter glue they make pawfect tree decorations.
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BEAR Nibbles on
December 7, 2011 at 8:18 pm.
Grrr, we’re grrrowling with pride to announce that Hayley won a grrreat award and another shiny trophy for the cave at this years prestigious ‘Women Of The Future Awards’
The Women of the Future Awards celebrate successful and inspirational young women under the ages of 35 in Britain today. Now in their sixth year, the awards continue to unearth and recognise the exciting stars of tomorrow across diverse sectors. Here’s Hayley in a frilly frock winning the ‘Entrepreneur Of The Future’ category for founding your favourite brand of grrr-liscious no nonsense nibbles.
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BEAR Nibbles on
November 17, 2011 at 3:47 pm.
When Bear first moved into the new cave in deepest darkest Farringdon it wasn’t fit for a bear. Grrr. So we decided to do something about it with a little help from our bear friends….
No trees? We can’t get cosy here
Our Bear friend Will the chainsaw carver made us some grrreat stuff for the cave. Will is now held in the highest regrrrd since we found out he lives in the woods and sleeps in a hammock. He’s really wild. Grrr.
Will carved our tree pillars, oak picnic table for meetings, trees shelves and even a bear (which only took 20 minutes!!) Check out his website and all the BEARilliant stuff he does.
http://www.chainsaw-carvings.co.uk/about/me/
Another BEARilliant bear friend Kenji came to paint the cave.
He brought our trees to life, and painted a chalkboard cave for our scribbles. He also brought along some of our forest friends like bonkers batty here….
Take a peek at Kenji’s grrreat work on his facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/jailclothing
Give us a growl, let us know what you think
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BEAR Nibbles on
November 16, 2011 at 8:02 pm.
On the 22nd October it was Bear’s 2nd birthday and time for our Party in the Pines. The sun came out in her brightest orange robe, grrracing us with the pawfect autumnal day.
But long before her grrrand appearance the Bear team arose with the sparrows to sneak around the misty morning woods hiding giant animal fact cards and painting paw prints on the trail. Besides a few fuddled looking dogs sniffing bears freshly laid tracks, the woods was magically silent at 6am and full of paw-romise for the festivities ahead.
Hours later the rowdy rabble arrived bringing with them over-excited cubs bearing handmade birthday cards for Bear. Ahhhh (we mean Grrr)
The day was a growling success with a bearilliant turnout of around 1000 humans and 32 dogs. But what really knocked our furry socks off was meeting 6 families who enjoyed our 1st birthday party so much they’d driven several hours to be at this one. Unbearlievable to feel so much Bear love.
All the cubs (& a few daring grrrown ups) had animal face painting, followed by birthday cake and the Forest Party Trail. Nobody leaves a Bear’s birthday empty pawed so everyone got a goody bag full of tasty treats to end a grrreat day.
Click here to see more photos of Bear’s birthday fun on Facebook. If you couldn’t make it this year but want to have a bit of bear-thday fun in your own cave you can download our forest party trail here and test your animal families knowledge. Grrr
And finally a big round of appaws to our friends at the Forestry Commission for paw-roviding the pawfect party venue. Love the woods? Visit http://loveforests.com/
Bear hugs
Bear & The Team
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BEAR Nibbles on
October 25, 2011 at 11:14 am.
After a solid pawformance at the Treeathlon Bearfoot 100m dash, BEAR is getting ready to put his best paw forward at the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon on Sunday 9 October.
Bear won’t be running in the beautiful 13.1 mile route which starts and finishes in Hyde Park and races through four of London’s stunning Royal Parks (Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park and St James’s Park) but will be on the starting line for the Pulse 3k to give the cubs a run for their money. Grrr
For those who’d rather put their paws up or take a more leisurely stroll beneath the autumnal trees there’s the Food & Fitness Festival where there’s lots of tasty foods on offer and entertainment. Don’t forget to stop by the Bear marquee for a little nibble and natter with the team and if you’re a big Bear fan you can get your paws on a special mixed goody offer to take home to your cave.
If you’re running, best of luck & big bear hugs.
For more info: http://royalparkshalf.com
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BEAR Nibbles on
October 3, 2011 at 1:21 pm.
BEAR is growling with excitement to be heading to both Harvest
Festivals taking place on Alex James’s Oxfordshire Farm & Jimmy’s Farm in
Suffolk (9-12th September). Tickets are selling like hot pawtotoes….
Bring some friends or round up the cubs for the pawfect
week-end to the summer. With tons of bearlliant celebrity chefs Harvest
festival is a foodie lovers paradise or in BEAR’s case a nibble fest.
If like BEAR you love the grrreat outdoors you can go camping, or glamping or even tipi-ing beneath the star lit sky.
Of course there’s music a paw-lenty too from the real maestros with headline acts like the Kooks (Grrr no uncle benny on the banjo this time).
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Harriet on
August 31, 2011 at 3:50 pm.
“Just So Festival”
Come down to the deepest darkest woods in Staffordshire this weekend (Fri 19th- 21st August) and grrrab a BEAR hug.
BEAR is venturing out from the dark BEAR cave to explore the Just So Festival, to try his paws at Bushcraft skills and see what all the growling is about with the circus school extravaganza.
There are still a few tickets available so if thats your neck of the woods or you fancy a family outing in the grrreat outdoors it would be silly to miss out. Click here to buy tickets or find out more > http://www.justsofestival.org.uk/tickets/.
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Harriet on
August 15, 2011 at 11:49 am.
A round of appaws for you. Our grrreat Bear family and friends who showed your suppawt by voting for Bear to win the Metro venture candy awards. Grrr we did it!
Although we were strictly told not to bribe you with nibbles for votes the judges didn’t say we couldn’t thank you after we won.
So keep a lookout for next week’s newsletter where we’ve packed in extra pawtions of tasty treats, festival tickets and special offers to get your paws on.
And have a very big BEAR hug from all the team at the big cave.
Grrr x
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BEAR Nibbles on
August 11, 2011 at 10:15 am.
