More about the Whiskered One

Growing up I never had a Nana or a Pop, I had two Grandmas and two Grandpas.  All four of them were in their own way highly distinguished, highly  educated,  prominent public figures and there was nothing really Nan or Pop about any of them. Don't get me wrong, as I've spoken of before I was very close to my late Grandfather on my fathers side,  but he wasn't a pop, he was Grandpa. My grandparents on my mothers side were both scientists, and very different to me. Living in the US i guess I never got much time with them, but again nothing REMOTELY Nan or Pop about them. And so there is a little part of me that is  sad I never had a Pop ( or a Nana).  You know what i mean don't you ?! perhaps I'm over simplifying or romancising the idea of a Pop and Nan, but well my childhood was far from "normal" whatever that means.... But that's another story.

 And while I have remained Popless it seems I have made a pop. The moment Mr Whiskers became a head, i knew he was a Pop, he was a bit of an old man bear. And as he grew into more and more of a whole bear, i knew that he He likes his mocassins, his cups of teas with 4 sugars, tinkering in his shed and is a bit of a dunker ( biscuits/cookies in tea).

 That every Saturday he likes to buy a lotto ticket, he's a long suffering Richmond supporter and is fond of the ocassional punt on the horses.I knew also that he needed a blue Pop cardigan which took me three goes to get right, but i was obsessed with the cardi and would not let it go.

And thank you for all your lovely comments about him and me last week. Alas Mr Whiskers will not be staying in the House of Wonk. It's not that I don't love him ( i still do) or will be sad to see him go, i like to feel like a bit with all my bears as then I feel i've made a good bear. But I don't feel like I need/have to /must keep him. And I know what that feels like. Mr Whiskerswill going to the most special of homes.But  don't worry ( or do depending on how you feel) this isn't the last of Mr Whiskers ( i'm so tempted to write Mr W but I know how he hates it) i have plans for this little bear, and hope one day to make the Mr Whiskers that cannot leave, and then I will have my Pop I never had.