Delilah Bear starts Brugge Beer Festival with 2 beers and an emergency bottle of wine!! What could go wrong?!! @beerbear21.bsky.social

We've arrived an hour & five minutes early for Brugge Beer Festival, but we appear to be first (& second & third) in line, so mission accomplished 🤣 🍻 🇧🇪

At Brugge Beer Festival with @humph-hugo.bsky.social

Amazing fish and chips at the Dutch Bargain brewery tap yesterday. Not quite my usual Whale size but delicious cod with ultra crispy batter.

Tweedy, Harry and Larry are enjoying their arrival in Cantillon Brussels!

Italian sossidge for dinner! 😬 @hungarianbear.bsky.social @beerbear21.bsky.social

Arpad & I went to Oostende today and met some friendly locals outside the station.

A beautiful summer evening on the Belgian coast: just before sunset at De Haan.

Bear in my coffee! @hungarianbear.bsky.social @bonsvoeux1.bsky.social @lambicqueen.bsky.social @musinganorak.bsky.social

One week to go… Let’s make this huge! 25th May Parliament Sq 10am onwards.

Grilled sausages for dinner 😋

Cis allies: it's our duty to make transphobia socially unacceptable and we have the power to do so. Speak up, call it out, boot it out of your business, and if you have a transphobic friend, now is the time for that friendship to end.

If you are confused about what's been happening over the past few days. Here it is in the simplest terms possible: -There was a UK Supreme Court ruling. -It terrified a minority and stripped rights from them. -A group that hates that minority, funded by a billionaire, is celebrating. That's it.

Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.

British cis women: please will you consider writing to your MP? It’s important that cis women in particular are seen to be angry about the repercussions of the SC ruling. There’s a lot of distress including suicidality on my timeline and in my DMs from the trans community. Thank you 🙏🏻

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

Amazing atmosphere on Brugge Markt this morning at the Ronde van Vlaanderen team presentation. It was so packed they 'closed' it at 9am! Our view was fantastic: here's MVDP, Wout, Tadej & Ganna 🚲

This penguin is like "Tariffs, you say?"

Trump's foolishness has presented the perfect opportunity for cats and penguins to sign a trade deal - the fish will be ours!

Markets looking horrific again. Don't check your pension.

Good bucket of cold water from @lewisgoodall.com on impact of #TrumpTariffs on UK; modest gain, or rather smaller loss, from 10% less tariffs than the EU will no way outweigh the massive losses to the UK from Brexit itself nor harm to the world economy from Trump open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Heard Island stands in solidarity with Greenland now and forever

10% tariffs on Heard & McDonald island didn’t go too well 😂😂

Clever Arpad has found this year's ENORMOUS Easter egg! 🤣 🐰 🐻

We need a symbol of anti-Trumpism – something we can all wear/display/gather around. Fortunately, we already have one...

Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.

This guy has got it right. Do not go to America in present circumstances.

You can lead a bear to office, but you can’t make him work! #HibearnationInterrupted

We visited some WW1 memorials today, which is hard work. So a good lunch was in order...croque madame duly delivered! It was amazing, especially the eggs 🥚 🐻 🇧🇪

I love Jane Austen. She makes me laugh! Great characters especially the silly and nasty ones. Men can be out all day hunting in the rain, even go to war and come to no harm, but a young lady only needs to walk on damp grass to get a putrid fever! But how else would she get a romantic marriage?

The US is effectively issuing a complete life ban on trans people entering the country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 (Photo @justinng.bsky.social - 2022)

Harris Bear continues hibearnation.

Harris Bear is very happy to find 2 Berliner bols in the fridge this morning. They've been missing from his life for too long.😁

Not much posting recently as humans have been doing an intensive Dutch language course, and also an integration course. It's exhausting!! But rhe Brugge Windows looked beautiful earlier this week.

Sunrise over the Brugge-Oostende canal, 9.10am this morning.

Timed this morning's ride perfectly to see the sunrise, just south of the Dutch border near Hoeke, at 8.54am 🚲 🇧🇪

This morning's ride started in darkness, with sunrise still not until 8.49am in these parts. When it arrived, the light was just stunning 🚲 🇧🇪

We managed to avoid B-A-T-H for the whole of 2024 but got nabbed on just the second day of 2025. The humiliation, the wet fur, I’ve only just dried out and warmed up! 😱 🐾 🐻

OUTRAGEOUS!!! Small bears forced to have BATH!! The humans said we were dirty!!! The indignity!!!

As I am unlikely to wander too far from the sofa today my Tree of the Day comes via my fave Norwegian Jan Aage Fjortoft in Tanzania … his family laughed at him when he said “I must send that tree to Alastair!” But his TotD gold medal makes the mockery worthwhile!!!

Happy Christmas to you all 🍺 🐻 🍺 We also have an Xmas Blend to enjoy, doubt we will have the will power to age it! Just cracked open the Carolus 👍😍

The local garden centre in Brugge was specialising in teams of reindeer!!

Brugge Burg during last week's full moon.

#SundayLunch #VealFricassée #FaçonPhilippe #Tagliatelle Didn’t listen to Htje & followed my idea on this classic. Veal fricassée (silver onions, leeks, celery, carrots, champignons, meatballs). Stewed a while & served w tagliatelle. Old Vines Agiorgitiko ‘15 Nemea by Papaioannou.

I appreciate the warning and will make haste

Antwerp's stunning Christmas lights.

A very accurate description of what it's like to be an introvert, useful reading for both introverts and extroverts. introvertdear.com/news/introve...

Harris Bear loves gazing at the Christmas tree 🎄 🌲 😄