âBears like Paddington are very rare,â says Mrs Bird, âand a good thing too, or it would cost us a small fortune in marmalade.â Stephen Fry returns to tell us the continuing saga of Paddington and the Browns. READ BY STEPHEN FRY. The Brown Family first met Paddington on a railway station â Paddington station, in fact â and now he is just another member of their family, if a slightly unusual one. As he says himself, âThings happen to me â Iâm that sort of bear.â With his attempts at home decorating, detective work and photography, the Brown family soon find that Paddington causes his own particular brand of chaos.