{"id":15,"date":"2007-02-21T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/02\/21\/teddy-my-oldest-friend\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T23:05:06","slug":"teddy-my-oldest-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/02\/21\/teddy-my-oldest-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy – My Oldest Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teddy is my oldest friend, except Mom of course. The earliest known picture of him is in the family photo album on the same page as my first birthday. So I assume he was a birthday present. He was a gift from my Uncle John in England and was of war time manufacture. The picture below shows him as I got him; all fuzzy, with eyes and nose intact and velvet palms and soles just aching to be rubbed against your nose. It is the only picture I have of him from my childhood. I don’t remember him this way. As far back as I can recall he has been bald. I remember Mom fixing him up at one time. I guess his eyes had fallen off and the string of his nose and mouth had fallen off too. Mom sewed on two buttons to replace his missing eyes and replaced his nose and mouth too. Her nose and mouth repair has gone by the wayside too, but the buttons remain to this day. I assume his stuffing was excelsior which powdered and sifted out through the course-woven fabric. It had to be replaced at the same time as the other repairs. Mom used old nylon stockings. In the picture I also appear to be holding some kind of a doll. I think it may have been a Cupie doll. Does anyone recognise if that’s right?<\/p>\n

I have had Teddy within easy reach all these years.<\/p>\n

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Butch and Paddy Thorpe with Teddy – Sept 12,1949<\/span><\/p>\n

In the early 1970’s he was on temporary loan to my kids. I found this photo of Lance asleep with Teddy and his own bear, Floyd.<\/p>\n

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Lance Thorpe with Teddy and Floyd – 1972<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is how he looks today. When Wendy was a teenager, I asked her to make him a little vest because he was getting so threadbare that even Mom’s nylons were trying to escape his innards. She tells me she whined about it then flat out refused. So Karen made him the natty little vest and bow tie for my Christmas present that year, hence the red and green motif. Wendy tells me she feels really bad about the whole deal now and would gladly do it today.<\/p>\n

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Teddy – Feb 21,2007<\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose I ought to refurbish him again. If I do, that will be the subject of another blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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