Elevenses is a break between breakfast and lunch, when it is time for a light meal or snack. In schools the early lunch break is called a "Tíz-órai" break. Parallel to the word Elevenses, "Tíz-órai" is often called Tenses "Tenzeez" by Hungarian-Americans and Hungarian-Britons. For elevenses, Winnie-the-Pooh preferred honey on bread with condensed milk. Paddington Bear often took elevenses at the antique shop on Portobello Road run by his friend Mr Gruber, for which Paddington would buy buns and Mr Gruber would make cocoa (hot chocolate). In the Middle-earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien ("The Lord of the Rings"), it
Michael Bond army in Cairo, and sold his first short story to the magazine "London Opinion". He was paid seven guineas, and thought he "wouldn't mind being a writer". In 1958, after producing several plays and short stories and while working as a BBC television cameraman (where he worked on "Blue Peter" for a time), his first book, "A Bear Called Paddington", was published. This was the start of Bond's series of books recounting the tales of Paddington Bear, a bear from "darkest Peru", whose Aunt Lucy sends him to the United Kingdom, carrying a jar of marmalade. In the first book