Tottering about the garden picking up fronds, pulling out weeds , it came as a surprise to spot what looked like a critter perched in the driveway frangipani peering at me . Hallucinating ? While I am of an age when I could easily slip into my second childhood, it certainly was not a figment of my imagination .
On closer examination , it looked like Snoopy wearing a battered hat . What the hell is Snoopy doing hanging about in my jungle ? Honestly, I did not buy up big with John Barleycorn and beer to see me through the pandemic . There really was an odd looking bear in the tree - XXXX proof in the following photograph.
On closer examination , it looked like Snoopy wearing a battered hat . What the hell is Snoopy doing hanging about in my jungle ? Honestly, I did not buy up big with John Barleycorn and beer to see me through the pandemic . There really was an odd looking bear in the tree - XXXX proof in the following photograph.
Making verbal contact with my Kiwi neighbour , I was informed that it is part of a world wide move to place toys, especially bears , in trees and in other prominent places for children to see when out walking with parents or driving along in cars , to ease the strain of these trying times .
The toy in my tree was one of a number scattered about Magnetic Island , North Queensland , there said to be several visible along Mandalay Avenue , one up a pole somewhere .
To join in the campaign , an old studio photograph of a kid with a bear was pulled out of this blog's dusty files and attached to the trunk of a palm tree .
The neighbour's daughter was alerted a pigeon had flown in with a present for her . That moulting pigeon had previously delivered another studio shot of a child posing with a toy which looks like some kind of dressed up waterfowl.
