23.12.2023 by the polar bears in the Yorkshire Wildlife Park (with a little help from Mervi)
Christmas was approaching with giant steps and our polar bear friends in the Yorkshire Wildlife Park started to make plans for the big holiday.
Luka: We must start our planning now and, of course, the Christmas dinner is our priority number one!
Sisu: I agree but snow is also very important so I’ve contacted my old friend Santa Claus in Finland and asked him to deliver some snow for us. He promised to do his best.
Hamish: I think we’ll have a traditional English dinner with turkey but I also insist we will have haggis, too!
Sisu: In Finland we always have ham, smoked salmon and different kinds of herring. However, we will have it our own way. The funny two legged creatures serve the salmon in thin slices and thats simply ridiculous! We will have salmon au naturelle – it’s kind of polar bear sushi.
Sisu and Hamish
Nobby and Luka: As a dessert we must have Christstollen!
Luka was quite exhausted after making so many plans for Christmas!
Nobby met a nice snowman in his dreams. As we know our Nobby likes travels in the Napland. 🙂
Flocke: I suggest we’ll have a French plum pudding with cod liver oil instead of rhum.
Hamish: What’s so French about cod liver oil?
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Flocke: I don’t know but everything French sounds very sophisticated and I’m a sophisticated lady if you didn’t already know that! I also suggest we hide a herring in the pudding instead of a coin.
Tala: Mama and I have been waiting for a Christmas card from my sister Hope and her boys Nanook and Noori.
Flocke and Tala waiting for the mail man.
Of course, they received a beautiful card from the gang in the Peak Wildlife Park.
Flocke: Oh, we received a long letter! Hope and the twins suggest an interesting contribution to our Christmas dinner – Swedish meat balls. I must add them on our menu.
Indiana, Yuma: Do we need some veggies, too? Maybe carots and brussel trouts? But no lettuce! The famous polar bear Knut once said that lettuce is only for sissies and we strongly agree!
Hamish: What shall we drink to make all that food go down? I suggest cod liver oil. Any objections?
Sisu: I think our menu is complete now so we can give it to our keepers. I’m sure they’ll be delighted now that they don’t have to compose the menu themselves!
Everybear: Now we must start rehearsing Christmas songs. Two members of the world famous Yorkshire Cat Choir will help us finding the ‘right key’.
Sisu is all ears ….
Mervi’s note: Sisu, Indie and Yuma were rehearsing loud and clear. I guess they were not singing ‘Silent Night’ ….
What would Christmas be without a nice tree?
The merry quartet Nobby, Sisu, Hamish, Luka
We wish all the readers of this magazine a Merry Christmas! Our special thoughts are with the people and the animals in Ukraine. Let’s hope the war will soon be over.
Smetanka
Dear Mervi,
Just lovely!
Merry Christmas to you , Vesa, and all polar bear fans!
Christine
Mervi Your Christmas special is always a treat. I am delighted that the UK now has so many Polars in great places. I wish you and everyone who visits here a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Dear Mervi,
What an amazing imagination you and the Polar Bears at YWP have, lovely collages to accompany such a brilliant storyline.
I wish you, your readers, all our white furry friends and animals everywhere a very Merry Christmas & a Happy Healthy New Year.
Vielen DANK für diese wunderschöne, eisbärenstarke Collage zum Weihnachtsfest ❣🌲🐻❄️
Ich wünsche ALLEN, Mensch und Tier, schöne, frohe und friedliche WEIHNACHTEN ❣💖
Liebe Mervi!
Das ist wieder eine großartige Weihnachtsgeschichte rund um unsere Lieblingstiere und Deine Collagen bringen einen zum Träumen. Ich wünsche und gönne den Bären all die Leckerbissen, die sie sich wünschen – sofern sie ihrer Gesundheit nicht schaden… – und darüber hinaus schöne und friedvolle Weihnachtstage.
Dear Mervi!
This is another great Christmas story about our favourite animals and your collages make one dream. I wish and hope the bears get all the treats they want -as long as they don’t harm their health… – and, moreover, a wonderful and peaceful Christmas.
Alles Liebe
Hugs
Anke
Merry Christmas, dear Mervi and Vesa!
Hugs
Ludmila
Dear MERVI
The collages and the story are wonderful ! 🙂
You have special talent for these fairy tales.
Let me add, that I wish all people
in the world with the forgotten wars
peace and a quiet Christmas, especially
the children and women in Palestine !
Nobody deverse it, to sit in a cellar
with exploding bombs above his head. 🙁
ALLEN LESERN UND MACHERN VON KM WÜNSCHE
ICH FRIEDVOLLE TAGE MIT IHREN FAMILIEN !
Christiane
I am delighted to overhear the menu planning at YWP through your story. It all sounds so good, and quite international. I hope all the polar bears in the world have a lovely Christmas. And the polar bear friends too.
Molly
Eine wunderbare Weihnachtsgeschichte und sehr schön gestaltete Bilder.
Dankeschön 🎄🤶
Ich wünsche Euch und Euren Familien ein wunderbares Weihnachtsfest.
https://flic.kr/p/2po6MEX
Natürlich sollte es oben “deserve” und nicht “deverse”
heißen, da hat sich ein Buchstabendreher eingeschlichen.
Dear Mervi,
Today’s marvellous stories remind me of the old days when you and Teddy Bear Mummy wrote about Knut and Flocke – so beautiful!
You haven’t forgotten a thing and you wrote with the same imagination as back then. The collages are enchanting and uniquely beautiful!
How nice that the stories with the bears have found a continuation in YWP.
Many thanks and best wishes
Britta-Gudrun