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Belle comes to Mudgee
I have been waiting for this day for ages. Belle is coming to Mudgee to visit and to teach me how to fix my coat – It will be wonderful to have my coat back – especially now it is getting colder. I went to the shop, with my human to wait her arrival. I knew she would not be there for ages so I filled in my time leaving messages to all my friends on FFB and reading funny comments about their photos and adventures – this is the bestest of things to do. Belle arrived earlier than expected and I was SO surprised. She had a present for me - easter egg (yum yum,) in a SHEEPIE cup – how clever of her to find a sheepie mug, just for me -

The day one wanted no customers, we had lots and Belle and I got interrupted over and over.. Eventually we got to leave the shop and head home. I wanted to get the sewing machines out immediately ( In fact mine was set up, threaded and ready to go), but no the humans 'needed' a cuppa and a time out – we did get to share their hot cross buns, with lots of butter, so that was great.

We made an APRON first – they are very simple, so Belle's human, said to make and would be a good introduction, before tackling my coat. I soon discovered the “joys” of sewing- it is called unpicking- I don't think it is much fun undoing what you have already done , but this is what my human called it – “Bonnie unpicking is one of the joys of sewing” (– if anyone can ex plain that to me I would be forever in their debt). I did a lot of unpicking – it appears I am better at that than sewing.

After much laughing, talking, and a little sewing we had wonderful aprons. Belle wasn't too keen having me pin it on her to try it out, but she only got pins in her a couple of times, and I didn't cut her at all with the scissors. The humans said they needed to recover by having another cuppa before tackling my coat – Belle and I were ready for anything after seeing how clever we were at making aprons.

Guess what – more unpicking – it appeared that my coat still wasn't in enough pieces to satisfy Belle's human. The coat reassembly was a little tricky, and I am sad to say that I did get a bit cross at it, but eventually, after more unpicking, it started to look like my old coat. It is very thin in places we discovered and needed a little “darning” attention ( it is called this I think because every time another hole was discovered my human would exclaim “Oh darn, another hole”). Belle reckons that it wouldn't be hard to make a complete new coat if the wearing gets too bad, I would be happy to do that – but I AM NOT unpicking all this to make a template for the next one – whatever a template is...

My coat is done – complete and it looks and feels just like old.... I am a very happy little bear. Belle and I did have a bit of a falling out – one of us liked “ears in” and one 'ears out'. I am not saying who, we decided to get our FF friends opinion [see file] about which looks the cuter.

After more laughing and eating and talking (with our beloved coats on) we fell asleep [I forgot I mention we ate our chocolate egg along the way]. We fell asleep and dreamed unpicking dreams – well I did.