I took it home as a present for my wife Brenda and named it Paddington as we were living near Paddington Station at the time. I saw it left on a shelf in a London store and felt sorry for it. "I bought a small toy bear on Christmas Eve 1956. It was while Michael Bond was working as a television cameraman for the BBC that he first came up with the idea for Paddington and he recalls in his own words how this came about: This experience helped him decide that he wanted to be a writer. He began writing in 1945 and sold his first short story to a magazine called London Opinion. During World War II Michael Bond served in both the Royal Air Force and the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army. He was educated at Presentation College, Reading. Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England on 13th January 1926. In fact, when I eventually gave up working for the BBC in order to write full time, I think both my parents were worried that I had given up a nice, safe job for what sounded to them like a very precarious existence." But I doubt my mother ever pictured me writing for a living. "When I was small I never went to bed without a story.
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