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Hello! People are getting confuddled - I'm not Baxter Bear - my name is Baxterbear! On the eve of the new millennium, I made a New Year's resolution at Edinburgh Castle to travel the world and that's what I've been doing ever since!
I'd much rather be living my life than sitting on a shelf!
I was born in a leap year, on the 29th of February 1928 and lived for many years just off the famous Royal Mile, right beside Edinburgh Castle Esplanade.
I have been a truly fortunate fellow to have lived in many places across the globe. Places like Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and India where I was a tea-tasting bear until the outbreak of World War Two.
Whilst helping take photographs for the British Army in my RAF Hurricane reconnaissance plane, I was shot down over the jungles of Burma. That was how I got my injuries, a patched shoulder and torn ear. I don't mind them at all! I was rescued by the Gurkhas. I think that this experience is what makes me different as I know what it's like to go through tough times and stay positive. I'm treekled to see that they're going to be at the Edinburgh Tattoo this year as I'm also going to be in Edinburgh.
After I was rescued, I went to live in Kenya, a country in Africa, where I went from a tea-tasting bear to a coffee tasting bear. In Africa I had my ear ripped again, by a chicken! How embarrassing!
I love flying and since then, I have flown to all sorts of places, seeing the most exciting things. From Venice to St. Petersburg, Los Angeles to Washington DC. Kings, Queens and Presidents, rock and roll, men on the moon, and everything in between...but nothing beats my love of shortbread!
As I have travelled, I've found time to write about some of my past adventures. Perhaps one day I shall be like my favourite writer, Sir Walter Scott and have a monument named after me, like the Scott Monument in Edinburgh!
Even though I love to travel and have adventures. I believe that coming home is the most exciting journey you can make.
For me, that will always be Scotland!
I am very excited because in 2012 I shall be celebrating my 21st or 84th birthday. It's the year of the Olympics and I have so many exciting things planned that I can scarcely wait to share with you!
But I am just treekled because I know there are plenty of adventures to be shared until then!
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