Every local campaign group should have an animal costume...

... and Southwark Friends of the Earth had a polar bear during the golden days of The Big Ask. It was a little bit toothsome, and had an occasional tendency to scare the hothouse flowers of Dulwich, but most people loved it.

My fondest memory of 'being the bear' is being attacked by a small child with a sonic screwdriver at the Nunhead Cemetery Open Day and having to repeatedly collapse to the floor in defeat.

More 'being the bear' photos (not all me) at the Flickr account.Photos by various members of the Southwark group who I'm sure won't mind me putting them up.