Mr Ted by sabresun

Mr Ted

Much later that night, Mr Ted arrived all agitated and told me of the complete fiasco that had been this year's Teddy Bears' Picnic. Practically no one had shown up. No one that is apart from an old, arthritic badger who made excuses and left the party early and an untalkative, veteran hedgehog who just thanklessly ate all the homemade sandwiches and cakes that had been oh so carefully laid out.

"One after the other down the ole pie hole" as he put it. "I don't know where the little fella put them all. Never again" he said, "Never!"

Ted then suddenly pointed behind to the unconscious, stuffed hedgehog who it seems had followed him home too, and growled bear-like, adding, "I really hate hedgehogs."

I urged him to calm himself down. It was over for another year and he couldn't change things now. He hardly ever growled either. I asked him why on closer inspection the hedgehog had seemingly a black eye. However, It was hard to be certain of this as it was partially curled into a ball.

"Well, I had to rough him up a bit. He was asking for it."

Personally, I think the hedgehog came off the better judging by the state of Mr Ted's paws, but I wasn't going to tell him that and as for unconscious, it was more like sleeping off the effects of the picnic feast. I'm sure it wasn't simply my imagination when I heard it smack its lips and snore.
Mr. Ted is cute.
February 24th, 2012  
LOL! I love it, Matt! :0)
February 24th, 2012  
That sounds like the worst picnic ever.
February 24th, 2012  
B
Why did Theo not attend?
February 24th, 2012  
Wow, what a let down. Hopefully he found a way to enjoy himself anyway
February 24th, 2012  
I LOVE the addition of the forest! :0)
February 24th, 2012  
Jen
Great image and I love your writings
February 25th, 2012  
Very creative work, Matt.
February 26th, 2012  
Kaz
Oh roflmao...when do you publish matt???? Enjoy the Clendon Files so much :-)
February 27th, 2012  
Hedgehogs deserve respect, not black eyes.
February 27th, 2012  
@jgoldrup True, yet greed, selfishness hardly deserve respect either and Mr Ted likes to boast, but I doubt he did any harm. I used to have a Jack Russell that used to find hegdehogs when they wandered into the back garden. He used to bark at them with a different bark to a normal bark. It would be this weird bark and then be followed by a perplexed yelp as he spiked his nose. No hedgehogs were ever harmed. :)
February 28th, 2012  
There's just so damn cute. But sure, cuteness is not an excuse for greed and selfishness .
February 29th, 2012  
Mr Bear tales, see you have been writing :) Love the picture, what did you do to it?
March 2nd, 2012  
@sugarmuser Sort of, but not proper writing, just random episodic stuff.
March 2nd, 2012  
:D love this
March 12th, 2012  
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