Have you His Dark Materials trilogy? My daughter got me into the TV series from the books, she’s read the books too. But tv series has got Lin-Manuel Miranda an
American songwriter and actor and best known for the musicals In the Heights and Hamilton…my favourite too 
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Well @EmeraldEyes
The simple answer is yes!! love them read all before my strokes and seen the plays at the NT and the series on TV!!
The more complicated one that my polar bear - my main polar bear - I have a few - ((he’s called Polar Bear) would tell you if he could - he is getting on - 21 in October - he would say that after my OT crocheted him some armour he waxes lyrical about how he’s descended from iorek byrnison himself ha ha ha
BTW my OT can crochet and talk!!
Oh and saw Hamilton 2 weeks ago!!
had to walk out at the end for the last 10 mins due to lights etc but saw the rest on the film!! Loved it.
xx
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My daughter and I are actually going to see Hamilton in November, it’s on in Manchester. I love it and it was my daughter who got me hooked 
Polar Bear looks very similar to my son’s, his was from the Ty Beanie range. He’s had it for over 22yrs, very loved, very little fur left, stuffing diminished, holes stitched up in many places and now too fragile to take another needle, so kept in a bag now, but he’s still got him
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OMG I love it!!!
Maybe get him one from the WWF?!
These are Kush and Mini Polar Bear (mini polars). Both WWF adoptees!
They are best friends and Kush belongs to my housemate. He loves his snow leopard!! But not as much as I love polar bears 
What is your son’s called?
Polar Bear (Polars) is from the Natural history museum and I got him after seeing the wildlife photographer of the year award in 2002…
He has had a couple of ops and they don’t make him anymore!! Just like your son’s!
that’s a lot more recent than 21 years ago 
but pre-strokes - october 2021 - took Polars for his birthday
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He calls him Pooh Bear. He was given as a gift for my sons birth so we had called Polie. But when our son learnt to talk, he came out of nursery one day wanting his Pooh Bear. After quite a bit of head scratch…and tears from him…we finally figured out he was referring to Polie. We recon he’d had a story in nursery on Winnie the Pooh and immediately associated him with his own bear
Anyway, that’s how Pooh Bear got his name
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That is an awesome way to name a bear!! How cool. Love a story behind a name! I cried a bit when you said how he cried because all he wanted was his polar bear!! When I was on my way to hospital my housemate said 'don’t worry I’ve got Polars he’s with you )
May I ask who gave Pooh Bear (simple PB ha ha) to him?
Well seeing as I am having one of those… Want bp below 150 or 100 before bed. latest 103 down from 115 earlier thankfully. Got some music on Days like this Van Morisson at the mo.,
So I try and adopt an animal for someone every couple of months at the moment. So far since S-day as I call it (stroke day 22 nov 22) I have WWF’d the following to people:
Jasmine (9) - Ice - Polar Bear [my fav name of them all i’m afraid as Isbjorn is the Norwegian name for polar bears meaning literally ice bear! - apart from Polar Bear of course]
Ava (2.75) - Bear - Polar Bear (even though Ava can’t really come up with a proper name for her bear, when I see her she rushes over and says “Mini Polars!!!” and holds up Bear and I give her MP and she then sits with them both chatting to them and she knows who is who!! - just melts my heart). Oh and when she walks around to everyone and stops and shows them the bears and says ‘mini polars, bear, grrrrr’ 
Emily (3) - Lenny - Amur Leopard (the WWF no longer do Amur Leopard adoption! She may have been the very last or one of the last to get a Lenny!! They stopped literally 2 weeks after I adopted him for her…)
JP (50) - Kush - Snow Leopard (MP’s best friend as JP is mine)
Margaret (78) - Roberto - Rhino
Me - Mini Polar Bear - of course!! (he’s 3 in Feb 2024)
MK (37) - Tiger - Sundar
I have named bears:
Polars
Mini Polars
Longyear Polars
Spitzberg Polars
Silver Polars - he’s a mad japanese inspired origami silver polar bear who is genetically engineering giant snow leopards and polars bears to protect him!!
Potty Polars
And my Two PBI tracked bears Barbara and Prudhoe - Babhoe to me
Plus many many unnamed ones ha ha.
I am aware I’m mad!
Be cool everyone 
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I remember, I think, in the long ago far distant past, there was someone used to post a picture, I think maybe of a duck, in all sorts of exotic locations around the world.
Maybe you could hitch a ride with David Attenborough and attempt something similar.
Do keep posting the experiences of Polar.
Keep on keepin’ on
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I have to dig out old actual photos ha ha!!!
But here are a few for you
Polars in Hong Kong with his new mate
He also likes it if I take his blanket with us…
Polars on a JAL plane just in the air after leaving Tokyo flirting with the stewardesses
Kyoto
Dhaka, Bangladesh (sorry about me in the pic!)
Canary Islands
London Stadium
On an A380
Bromley!!
With my late cat Vlad 
And of course Polars and Mini Polars in our cabin on the boat in the Arctic ocean at 79 degrees north 
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Mad no, not at all! Excitable and refreshingly lively are some your traits coming across to me And I’m loving this diversionary post, it’s good for your mental health to take a break away from the strokes from time to time
And I think my favourite polar bear name on your list is Longyear Polars well, second to Pooh Bear of course 
Wish I’d even thought of getting my son one of those Polar Bear blankets, I just never thought. I used to have one with horses on it, it was so soft 
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Thanks @EmeraldEyes
That means a lot to me
This is Longyear Polars (he is named so because I bought him in Longyearbyen - the ‘capital’ of Svalbard!)
This is Kush and MP playing with Spitzberg Polars (Spitzberg / Spitzbergen is an alternative name for Svalbard and I bought him in the Svalbard Hotell (yes with 2 l’s ha ha) as they had one on display and I asked to buy him ad they said ok )
Do you have a pic of Pooh Bear? I have told MP and Kush about him and they want to see a pic!!
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=u-decor&query=polar%20bears
Stay cool
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It’s actually quite hard to find any full pics of PB, he’s always dangling off my son’s hand, wrapped in a bear hug or lying at his feet
This is in PB’s more recent threadbare years, doing a spot of wine tasting on a narrowboat on the Llangollen canal
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Wow I did not expect that!!! He’s sooooooooo coooooool!!!
Love it thanks you. I will show MP and Kush when they are done playing!
He still has his claws!!! Polars’ nose isn’t black anymore as he keeps kissing stewardesses!! What a flirt!
I love him xxxxx
Stay cool
Lenny and Emily!! My best friend’s niece!
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Now she is absolutely adorable looking, she’s gorgeous 
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If this is madness, I am all for it. My 38 year old daughter has a monkey that goes everywhere with her, and the 35 year old, a cat. Grandson takes them where ever he goes as well. The stuffies get around, and it makes us all smile. Here’s to polar bears, traveling, photographing, and sharing love and smiles with all.
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Our 30-year-old son has Flatty Bear on his bedside table and our 32-year-old daughter has multiple stuffed things including Stitches an emotional support bear
Mine & my wife’s are in the bookcase downstairs two fragile to do much with called Little Ted & Lea’s is PussCat
And @EmeraldEyes we’ve done the Llangollen too
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Well speaking of hobbies it nearly West Ham time!! Please wish us luck unless you are a TSC supporter!!
Have a good evening all!!
be cool
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I know nothing about football but good luck to West Ham
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