I may have got it wrong about the bear. The original bloggee has sent the following correction
"I'm afraid the bear shot was taken not far from Elephant and Bagel, which is on Nicholson Square, I think. My theory is that the bear is blind drunk, and passed out."
I now feel less sorry for the deprived child. It needs to acquire basic parenting skills. Still it would not have happened in Hutton unless the Bear managed to get flutered in The Cross Inn at Paxton and then hitched to Hutton to collapse there. Traffic is so light between the two villages that he might have waited all night for a car. Hopefully we can keep this type of riff raff out of the Merse.
