‘Gutted’ Yarn creation stolen
A woman was left ‘gutted’ after a postbox topper she put up near her home was stolen less than 24 hours after it was finished.
The topper, which went up at seven o’clock on Thursday evening, was reported missing by lunchtime the following day, an outcome which left Felpham resident Jan Budd (pictured left with the creation), who has been making and displaying the cosies since late June, ‘fuming’.
“I’m just gutted,” she said. “I think it’s sick that some people could actually do that.
“If it went missing overnight, I’d think someone took it on their way home from the pub, but it didn’t. It went missing in broad daylight.”
Mrs Budd has been making the toppers for several months, to rave reviews from the community.
She started out with designs inspired by the bravery of NHS staff and the delights of life by the sea, but the positive response encouraged her to keep going, to get even more ambitious with her designs. Her latest topper, the sixth, was her most intricate yet. Featuring three minions from the Universal Pictures film Despicable Me, it took a considerable amount of time and effort to create.
“It’s absolutely terrible,” said Bob Budd, Mrs Budd’s husband. “It was quite a nice (cosy) with minions on it and everything. Jan spent quite a long time knitting it and designing it and everything, but unfortunately it wasn’t even up for 24 hours. It’s just dreadful.”
Fortunately, both Mr and Mrs Budd said the community is doing everything it can to bring the postbox topper back.
“Our daughter is much better at Facebook then we are. So she’s put it around and lots of people have shared it,” Mr Budd said.
“We must have had five or six hundred people commenting on it saying how sad it was.” Mr Budd added that local postmen are also involved with the village effort.
After hearing about the issue on Facebook, he said, they took to putting up posters around the village in an effort to find the cosy. “It’s been an absolutely brilliant response,” he said.