What a delight to see this splendid knitted crown on top of a postbox near Salisbury Cathedral.

Drawing it made me realise what a lot of work had gone into its creation, and all done anonymously. 

I’ve been aware of these knitted  and crocheted postbox toppers since lockdown, but a quick internet search shows Royal Mail first spotted them in 2012. They have certainly increased in number since the pandemic.

They are a delight and make us stop and smile – even if they are a bit bonkers! But somehow that fits the mood of the Coronation week, with slightly bonkers rituals and costumes but a sense of all being connected by our long history – and perhaps by a certain eccentricity that seems to be bound up in the British (or certainly in the English) character!