swapshop, cheggers plays pop, all sorts.to miss a bus one christmas evening and went into a london store and saw this toy bear on the counter, nobody had bought it, it was the only one left, i took it home to my wife, we lived near paddington so we decided to call it paddington. one day i was sitting with a blank sheet of paper and a typewriter and started to write a story about it and i became a book. mr and mrs brown first met paddington on a railway station which is how he came to have such an unusual name for a bear. based on my father, very polite man, always wore a hat and paddington has a lot of him in him. good afternoon, he said, can i help you? there's parsley. sometimes mr onion lets him ring the school bell. hello, parsley! # london, a lovely city. # you can go to france or america. # india, asia, australia # you're gonna come back to london city. # london is the place for me. i think there was a sort of reticence and nervousness that the women might take over altogether. we might not present an acceptable face o