"'When I grow up I will never cry for what I do not have or never need. I will listen to all argument whether I agree or not and will never come down on the side of wrong over what I know and believe to be right, however close or distant in my affections the debater may be.
I shall keep my friends forever close and will never lose sight or contact with my family or my parents' values. I will continue to love all form of Nature and seek to protect all species of animals from its greatest predator, mankind. I will also welcome strangers to my shore who are homeless, the beggar to my door who is destitute, help the aged, protect the young and befriend the widow and widower.
And as for you 'Teddy', do not fear that you will be discarded and banished to the darkness of the loft, for you will always sleep beneath the warmth of my bed sheets and share the comfort of my pillow for all the days of your life. And if any man dares to object to your presence, then they will do so from the confines of their own bedroom.'
Have you ever wondered why some women will stop cuddling their partner, stop sleeping with their husband and even abandon their man just because his hair is thinning into a bald patch, his belly is getting larger and he no longer finds it affectionate or delightfully playful when you chew his ear as you drop off to sleep in the marital bed. Yet, however bald, fat, grubby or smelly their old 'Teddy' eventually gets, that old bear is never excluded from their affections and bedroom.
During my life, I have come across a few female beds which I have unknowingly shared with her favourite 'Teddy'; usually found at the bottom of her bed or snuggly hidden beneath the pillow whilst the love ritual is in play. I ask you, 'What's all that about?' I wonder what any of these women would have thought if, before I slipped beneath the sheets for a mad, passionate session of lovemaking, had I non-nonchalantly placed a Corgi car I used to play with at the age of five years beneath the pillows before the action started or placed some Dinky Toy in her hands to play with before we started? As my dear old mum would say, 'What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander!' Come to think of it, there may have been more than one reason that I was a 'Teddy Boy' in my youth?''
Love and peace Bill xxx