There were also various small sandwiches, sausage rolls, salads, crisps, fruit, cakes, coronation biscuits shaped like crowns, strawberries and cream, in fact everything you could wish for in a picnic spread for teddy bears.
As you may recall, they were planning on having their own "coronation" with Charlie as their King Of The Party. Edward had finally finished the regal cape he had been making and he had also constructed a large golden crown for Charlie. Teddy had volunteered to carry out the actual crowning ceremony. He was a bit worried that he might not be able to reach up quite high enough to place the crown on Charlie's head so had arranged for a stepladder to be available if needed.
Soon their friends started to arrive and they all commented how nice the garden looked, bedecked in all the spring flowers and bunting, and they were all looking forward to what looked like a huge picnic spread out before them.