The popularity of postbox toppers has picked up across towns and villages in the UK
Rising energy bills, political turmoil and the cost-of-living crisis has dominated 2022.There has been a surge in the popularity of postbox toppers - the knitted or crocheted decorations that sit on top of postboxes.BBC News looked at some of those that generated widespread reaction across social media and spoke to the people behind them.
She displayed her first one in the village of Ticknall in Derbyshire earlier in the year and has since gone on to make six more."It gives me something to do but the by-product is that everybody seems to enjoy them."Ms Upton said her owl topper, that was stolen in the summer, was her favourite"Somebody came up to me and said 'fantastic effort for your Christmas topper; that's really nice'.Ms Upton suspects the pandemic has been behind the rising popularity of toppers.
But it was a topper she made featuring Winnie the Pooh that prompted a particularly emotional response. "When we've actually done the creations and the yarn bombing and put it out, the response has been overwhelming really," she said.
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