Honey bear

In the shadowy recesses of our garden there lives a bear called Honey.  Not any old bear, Honey is an eighteen year old Derwent Bay Bear brought back from a Lakeland holiday when our girls were barely teenagers.  The normal survival age for this species is usually ten to twelve years so she is doing very well, perhaps due to her liking for an occasional bath in creosote (or its modern equivalent).  Over the years she has been perched on by the birds, used as a scratching post by cats and used as a launching point for the squirrels leaping up the fence.

The Derwent Bay Bears are chain saw carvings and used to be made on the edge of Derwentwater in the Lake District.  That original site closed down a number of years ago but they are still made at a site near Penrith.