My bear enjoyed bus driving, but is glad to be home
MY sister, my mummy and I took the bus home from Godalming to Milford on April 25.
When we got home, mummy asked: "Where is your bear Bella?" It was gone. We walked back to the bus stop, but the bear was not there.
That evening, I kept asking: "Where is bear?" and mummy and daddy said: "He is on the bus." I could see they were afraid bear would not come back.
The next day my mummy e-mailed Stagecoach, the bus company, to ask if anyone had found him. And a few hours later, to her astonishment and delight my mummy got an e-mail from a really nice bus driver, Jim Mortimore, who had found my bear!
"Does your bear have a yellow tummy, purple nose and green paws? If so, he is enjoying his adventure helping me look after the buses here in Aldershot, waiting to be reunited with his owner," read the e-mail. And then the nice bus driver said we could come and pick the bear up, and the driver wrote: "To be fair, he is having a really good time on his work experience and so Isabella shouldn't worry about him!"
My mummy said it was one of the best e-mails she had ever had and it brought a tear to her eye. She told all her colleagues about the wonderful bus driver. Someone said: "You should write to the paper."
On the Saturday, we went to the bus station in Aldershot and went up the tower (which said "private" on the door) where the big boss bus driver, Richard Hodgekiss, gave me back my bear. It was very exciting, and now my bear is back and I will never let go of him again.
Thank you very, very, very much, Mr Mortimore, for looking after my bear. You are the best bus driver in the world.
ISABELLA (aged two)
Milford.
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