Showing posts with label London bus guide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London bus guide. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

More Mouse Mail!!

 I got some more mail (a few weeks back)!!!


This one is another brown envelope. I know what's inside these now!!!

Oooohhhh... 3 Bus Guides!!!!

This is the 205... we just read Beanie's blog about it.

It goes all over the place - from Paddington Stn all the way to East London and beyond!

I want to go to London. Sigh.

And then there's the 507...

It goes from Victoria down to Waterloo Station across the Thames... hmmm... kind of a short bus.

But might come in handy one day!

And this is a revised version of #14!! We got the prototype initially and this is a real copy!

Beanie got a long arm stapler so the staples can go down the middle...

Excellent!! Thanks Beanie! You can see the Bus Guides in Beanie's Etsy Shop!

And then we got this card... it's a regular Beanie card!!

With cat stamps...

I think it's a bit weird for mice to use cat stamps but... hey... whatever floats your boat!

It's a lovely card!

With the latest Case of the Missing Bullion prize!!!!

It's the Diversity Coin - we solved the clue ages ago!

Thanks Beanie!!!

And we got a postcard from Alaska!!! That's where Little Fox went this summer!!

Little Fox had a great time hiking and saw lots of wildlife!!! Cool!!!

Maybe I'll get to Alaska one day... I'd like to go to Hyder... cause it's driveable from BC!

And another postcard... this one is of the Angel Oak!!! Oooohhh... that is one BIG tree!!!

It's like 25.5 feet around the trunk!!! Whoa... that's a big tree! And it's about 400-500 years old. Amazing!

It's known as a Live Oak (well... of course it is... otherwise it would be a dead oak!).

The card is from Ajdin!!! Ajdin did a tour of the SE USA... he saw a LOT of cool stuff!

Ajdin wants to know if we have oak trees where we live... yes we do!!! We have the Garry Oak trees!! They are part of a threatened ecosystem...

And another postcard!!!!

This one is from Cocoa!! He's in England visiting his Beanie Mouse cousins and having a fantastic time!

I wish I was there too... sigh.

Maybe Cocoa will come home soon???

Alright... one more thing. I had commented earlier about how these plain brown envelopes really aren't a typical Beanie Mouse mailer...

Oooh... look at that... Use up your non-barcoded stamps  by 2023... huh... that's weird. Maybe this is why we are getting so many cat stamps!! Beanie must have a stash... 

OK... that wasn't what I wanted to show you... look inside the brown envelope...

It's got a fancy gold lining!!!!

Now THAT is what I expect  from Beanie Mouse!!! 

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Super Cool Mouse Mail!

 We received a beary interesting piece of mail the other week!


It's from England! But it's strange because...

It's from Beanie Mouse but... Beanie usually uses much fancier envelopes!

Beanie is NOT a plain-brown envelope type of mouse!

And... the stamps are of cats!! A mouse using cat stamps??? Strange... mind you... maybe he's trying to curry favour with Minnie!

Anyhow, let's open this up shall we!

EEEEE!!! It's the latest bus zine!!! (Well... the latest as of a few weeks ago... Beanie's been busy producing more!!). This one is the C1 bus route!!! Beanie rides this all the time in London and...

We are prepping for our next trip to London (whenever that might be)... cause we are normally Tube takers... cause the buses are soooo confusing in London! But... these bus zines might convince us otherwise...

This one starts near Shepherd's bush... near the ITV Studio (that's probably something we should know about... but we don't!).

And then it heads east and nicks the corner of Holland Park... ooohhhh... that's interesting! And then it goes down past Earls Court!

Then dekes up to South Kensington (deke is a real word in Canada - it's an ice hockey word...)... and goes past the Natural History Museum and the V&A...

Passes by Harrod's (or Horrids) and then dekes south again to go towards Sloane Square...

Before ending up at the Victoria Train Station... oooohhh... this is all beary interesting!!!

And there's a couple of art deco buildings there too... cool!

We visit a LOT of those spots when we're in London... so this is a beary handy bus route to know!

But... the bus zine is missing some key locations... like the nearest Starbucks!!!

What?!! I'm a bearista bear... and I LOVE their chocolate brownies and hot chocolate... and free wifi... a blogger lives on free wifi you know! Especially when they are travelling...

Anyhow... the other thing we love about these zines is that we can write in various things that we like...

Like the Starbucks in South Kensington....

And a little detour down to the art deco Michelin building...

And Royal Albert Hall and the Brompton Oratory (that is one GLOOMY church!).

We marked up the other pages too... cause that's what these zines are for!!! We already ordered the next ones too... but we are going to order them in batches cause it's the same price to ship 3 as to ship one!

 Thanks Beanie!!! Oh... and if you're interested... here's Beanie's Etsy shop