My bestest pal is Marley Bearmani. He came to lives with me in da middle of April 2010. His BirdDay is February 14, Valentine’s Day which is da pawfect day fer him to be born cuz he was made with so much love by my buddio, Snuffy Bearmani. He just stuffed wid it in all his fuzzy wuzzy parts! Marley was a total surprise. One days I gets a big box about da same size as me, dis way and dat way! I opened it and out popped Marley. He even brought some chocolates, too...course not all of dem mades da trip doe. Teehee! Dats a LONG way from coast to coast...he came to British Columbia all da way from Nova Scotia.
Marley arrived at da most purrfectess time too. I was off on an adventure so I asked Marley if he wants to come and he shouts “Sure diddly-O-doe Do I’’ *giggles* Our first trip was da Aquarium and dipping his paws into da Pacific Ocean, he had dipped dem into da Atlantic and so now he is bear-coastal :-) ...and nows everyday is an adventure wid my bestest buddy! I gots lots of super pals like Rainbow da sockmonkey but me and Marley really clicked and plus he small enough to fits into my lil bag so da lil stinkweed don’t even needs to be invited. He really quiet and den out he pops! taDA!!!!! He usually be covered in chocolate and cookie crumbs...geez...I being a duck is better at cleaning up crumbs...teehee I gots a vacuum beak....vroom vroom!
Anyhoo...we has done loads of fun stuffs togedder...we wents to Las Vegas! WooHoo! We wents for a weekend to Washington, da tulip festival, Easter, concerts, pirating,Canada Day celebration... lots since I knows him...all dat in not even 4 months yet. We just came back from a great adventure...we did some goldpanning, mets OgoPogo (He loved Marley! See Photo) and wents on a steam train ride on da Kettle Valley Railroad. So much fun fer us pals.
So even doe I thinks I already had oodles of friends...ya never knows what is around da corner....cuz dare always room for another buddy!!!!
I sure is a lucky ducky.
Thank you to our good chum, Snuffy. Snuffy is such a wonderfowl friend. He brought us togedder and we always will be greatfull for dat. HUGS!!!!!
Berlin, Tempodrom 7th May 2010, 20.00 hrs – 23.00 hrs
What a beautiful day for waiting outside the Tempo-drom with about 6.000 other Snow Patrol fans. The sun was shining while we stood in a long row for getting ad-mitted by the big grim boys at the entrances. These typical body guard guys were looking inside each rucksack and big bags. What they were looking for? Water bot-tles! Simply plastic bottles filled with mineral water!
Being asked for the reason for doing so, they answered pretty harsh, “because it’s forbidden!” that’s all. We think the main reason might be the event management wanted to earn the whole profit from selling beverages. In the end we made it! We found our places and settled down for the event.
It’s always pretty interesting watching all these people streaming inside the middle of the arena. Everyone was trying to get the best place just in front of the stage. But not many belonged to the lucky few. These were mostly young girls and even some boys willing to stand straight up to two hours before the beginning and then hold out the whole concert’s duration.
Well, our humans are quite old and their bones are darn cracked since a while…hehehe…! So what? Yeah, we had marked seats. We bears had an excellent view from the rucksack’s top. Burnie whispered in my ear “Greg, did you already noticed that we’re always ON TOP?” She was excited, we held paws…and the fun began!
Just on time at 20.00 hours the concert’s supporting group Foals appeared on stage, starting with a powerful song from their latest released CD. Although we didn’t know this band before, we must admit that we much enjoyed the kind of fresh, young and independent style of the music and performance.
These young guys seem to be very talented and we hope they’ll become better known as time goes on. At least the audience was enthusiastic about the Foals. After 30 minutes performance they were sent home with agree-ng happy applause.
The stage’s rebuilding for Snow Patrol took about a 30 minutes break. We hardly can believe why humans al-ways have to drink big mug’s filled with beer and eating all those stuff. But their needs were served by all these snack stations around.
When the lights went out Snow Patrol appeared on stage while Gary Lightbody started with “Hands Open” and the hall was bursting into light and music! What a perfect start!
When we experienced Gary live on stage for the first time we got the best impression ever. This was at last year’s famous & fabulous U2 concert in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Snow Patrol appeared as the supporting group forU2 and their performance was just breath taking! Gary was deeply impressed by this huge number of the audience: nearly 100,000!
Well, talking to the audience, he remarked “the arena has shrunk down since our last Berlin performance… isn’t it?” He’s such a funny guy making very good jokes and remarks throughout the concert. He is so very like-able and handsome, engaging everybody by his person-ality.
All lyrics and music are written by him and his particular voice is mainly leading the Snow Patrol songs. Experiencing them live is amazing!
What more to add? Every song from their set list was a well-known hit!
Chocolate/Eyes Open/Run/Chasing Cars/Shut Your Eyes/Set The Fire To The Third Bar/You Could Be Happy/Open Your Eyes
After performing some songs, Gary jumped into the front rows of the audience, shaking as many hands as could be… the body guards seemed to be quite clueless.
Standing back on stage he remarked about some big signs held up by a few girls in the second row. He asked “So you want me to sing these songs for you?” “Yes!!!” was the reply.
“Unfortunately I can’t do all for you…I forgot the words…” he’s so cute when lying to us! “But”, he contin-ued, “give me YOUR sign” he said to a group of girls. It was handed up to him and he showed it to us saying “O.K., this song I will do especially for you girls as re-quested!” “Crack The Shutters”started and the arena was singing along with Gary, dancing and shouting! A party for all!
When the last tunes were done, Gary took the sign and asked if he may keep this as a souvenir. Of course he was welcome to do so. Then, while holding the sign up to show it to us, he pointed on the signature “ xoxoxo” explaining “kiss & hugs…must be true love!”
And the music burst into the arena continuing this fan-tastic concert with:
Take Back The City/The Golden Floor/Please Take These Photos From My Hand/The Planets Bend Be-tween Us/It’s Beginning To Get To Me/How To Be Dead/Same
With incredulous astonishment we realised that the concert was about to come to its end when Gary said goodbye and all band members laid down their instru-ments. Applauding back to the audience Snow Patrol left.
Believe it or not, but several people already left their seats, heading to the exits. Burnie poked me whispering “Greggy, why are these people leaving? It’s not over yet, is it?”
“Yeah bumblebee, they’re rather silly. I even get the impression those humans are on the getaway from here! Perhaps they want being first on this escape! Hehehe…”
This made us laugh until standing ovations, shouting and whistling got Snow Patrol back on stage.
The terrific song “The Lightning Strike” was the highlight of this amazing concert. An excellent animated video,shown on a big screen at the stage’s background, illustrated it. Surprising effects were brought about by using Origami figures. Very impressive 16 minutes presentation!
When they ended their unique performance Gary said definitely goodbye…with “You’re All I Have”...animating us to sing along with him! What a great farewell!
We asked our humans if this was the final end. While stowing us away into the rucksack they agreed and we started our way home. This meant we got to our car and went on an easy ride through the illuminated city of Ber-lin.
Back home we jumped out and went to sleep immedi-ately while the humans shared a nice cold beer!
Hope you enjoyed reading our bear report and that you’ve got an idea of this amazing concert.
See you on 11th November 2010 at the Berlin “O2 World” where Amy MacDonald will perform her newest songs. Stay curious!
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My good pal, Snuffy Bearmani and editor of Fauxgue is also a brilliant web site designer...and most peeps only knows dat he is a faberoovalous designer of clothes and tents and assorted accessories. Well earlier dis year Snuffy asked me if I would be interested in having my own website. I said I WISH!!!! Course I would but it is just a ducky dream of mine and I didn’t even knows how to get started. Having a website is a bits trickier den having a blog and its a bit more intimidating fer a newbie to do all dat stuffs esp for a birdbrain like me. Well Snuffy says I will help you set it up. I know how to do that! Well Darn-tooting! I sure was a happy lil yeller feller dat day...So dats wad he did! YIPPPPEEEE!!!!First, I sets up a vote on Facebook to helps me picks da name fer my website. It was hard to decide but my final choice wid da help of my pals was www.bubblesworld.ca We pays fer dat name and nobodys can deletes my stuffs like we is always askerred of on Facebook. WOOHOOO!!! So slowly but Shirley, Snuffers teached me how to do stuff...like add photos and stories, edit and stuffs. I still gets stucks and don’t know much but I can’t believes how patience and kinds dat bear is with a silly birdie likes me. He so smart too. Geesh. He sew busy *giggles at sew* but still he squeezes in some time to helps me if I needs it. Sometimes we has a technical difficulty. Dat a good time to grab a beer and a slice of pizza usually. My laptop is getting pretty sticky. Teehee! So da website was born in da spring and now it be fall 2010! I can’t believe how the time has flown by! Whoa! Look for Haunted Halloween Happenning in da last week of Halloween. It on da Fauxgue Event Calendar! I will be posting photos of me all dressed up and my pals Halloween dress up photos too. Please send me your photos to
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Dis Fall, Da website will be raided by pirates too...so you see dare is oodles & oodles to look forward to!
My bestest pal is Marley Bearmani. He came to lives with me in da middle of April 2010. His BirdDay is February 14, Valentine’s Day which is da pawfect day fer him to be born cuz he was made with so much love by my buddio, Snuffy Bearmani. He just stuffed wid it in all his fuzzy wuzzy parts! 
My good pal, Snuffy Bearmani and editor of Fauxgue is also a brilliant web site designer...and most peeps only knows dat he is a faberoovalous designer of clothes and tents and assorted accessories. Well earlier dis year Snuffy asked me if I would be interested in having my own website. I said I WISH!!!! Course I would but it is just a ducky dream of mine and I didn’t even knows how to get started. Having a website is a bits trickier den having a blog and its a bit more intimidating fer a newbie to do all dat stuffs esp for a birdbrain like me. Well Snuffy says I will help you set it up. I know how to do that! Well Darn-tooting! I sure was a happy lil yeller feller dat day...So dats wad he did! YIPPPPEEEE!!!!First, I sets up a vote on Facebook to helps me picks da name fer my website. It was hard to decide but my final choice wid da help of my pals was www.bubblesworld.ca We pays fer dat name and nobodys can deletes my stuffs like we is always askerred of on Facebook. WOOHOOO!!! So slowly but Shirley, Snuffers teached me how to do stuff...like add photos and stories, edit and stuffs. I still gets stucks and don’t know much but I can’t believes how patience and kinds dat bear is with a silly birdie likes me. He so smart too. Geesh. He sew busy *giggles at sew* but still he squeezes in some time to helps me if I needs it. Sometimes we has a technical difficulty. Dat a good time to grab a beer and a slice of pizza usually. My laptop is getting pretty sticky. Teehee! So da website was born in da spring and now it be fall 2010! I can’t believe how the time has flown by! Whoa! Look for Haunted Halloween Happenning in da last week of Halloween. It on da Fauxgue Event Calendar! I will be posting photos of me all dressed up and my pals Halloween dress up photos too. Please send me your photos to
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