Polish descendants. Bears and more...

Cycling through the park yesterday I met a young man watching the birds on an old oak tree. We chatted and I found out that his grandfather was Polish. He was in the army and fought at Monte Cassino. During the war he was captured by the Soviets but managed to get away and eventually settled in Britain, like so many other Polish people who couldn't get back to their country when it became part of the Soviet block after WWII.

Earlier in the day I spoke to a friend who told me about a Polish couple who made England their home after WWII. She was a remarkably brave woman who fought in the Warsaw uprising, was captured by the Nazi Germans and sent to a POW camp in Germany. When the prisoners were freed by the English, she made her way to England. Her husband fought against the Germans as well and when the war ended he stayed in the UK. The woman died quite recently.
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Now a portion of today's photos, not at all related to the above topic:

These bears decorate a building in High Street Kensington. It houses many shops, an underground station and a roof garden with a Private Members Club. When you stop to think about it, the bears may be a link to the war topic. Actually, the Polish Army had a... pet Syrian brown bear called Voytek! Click here to read about this unusual soldier bear.


One can say: one good bear deserves another, paraphrasing a well known saying. Hence, a picture of the bear who is storming the cinemas these days:


Dear Learning English Readers! Here comes a competition!

The first to submit the actual saying which I have paraphrased as 'One good bear deserves another' can rightly await a prize!
So? Scroll down to the end of this text and key in the answer and key in the answer in the comments section!
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And I will continue with the pictures:
Kensington Church Street saw me today. The street starts on the corner right behind Paddington Bear where you can see the new Roadmaster bus. TheTrinity Hospice charity shop puts a lot of effort to make the window attractive.
 
Two or three people were praying at a little church on my way. There was an exhibition on the life of Saint Teresa of Avila.
 

To be accurate, I didn't walk to the very end of Ken Church Street today as I decided to turn left escaping the hustle and bustle of a busy road. The little side street has its charm, especially on a sunny day.
 
 




Having passed the house where Walter Crane, the painter, lived I decided to take a shortcut to High Street Kensington and took more pictures...
 

 

    
 

High Street Kensington:

  
Pop-up art show:
    
 

 

Around new Kensington Town Hall and Library:
 

 

Where High Street Ken meets Earls Court which leads to Holland Park one comes across a big building site. Behind it there is a tent-like roof of the former Commonwealth Institute. The new complex is to house The Museum of Design.


Before I finally arrived at the Octavia shop a short a bit further west of this place I had had a sandwich followed by my favourite 'Cortado, no froth' coffee next to The Odeon Cinema which, like many, is threatened with extinction. Of my today's Octavia encounters I've got to mention in chronological order:
-a very competent new staff member
-a cute dog 
-an extremely talkative man who said he had worked as a journalist for the BBC, new some Polish and has been to Poland a number of times!
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Meanwhile, my friend is carrying out job interviews in Cebu, Philippines. He says there is a lot of poverty in that city... Do we realise how lucky we are to live here and now?
As I haven't yet received a single picture from his trip, I'm adding a T shirt spotted at the above mentioned Octavia shop!