Annie

We picked Annie up from a car boot sale in Walton-on-Thames about six years. Cream fur, soft as anything, with little button eyes and a stitched smile.

She’s a Build-A-Bear, and she’d clearly been loved before. The fluff around her paws had that well-cuddled softness you can’t fake.

We sewed her a set of pyjamas by hand. A floral top and white trousers, the sort of thing you’d want to curl up in on a Sunday morning.

She came along to Horsham Market about six years and met the family who took her home to Oswestry that same afternoon. A good day.