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Picture by Keith Knight the wireless waffler and photographer

The sad reality is that in some parts of this shocking world you would not touch this in case its booby-trapped!! Sad!

I thought about the tears of the child that's lost her. I have spent hours in the past looking for lost and precious teddy bears!

I shall never forget my nephew going to his father's for the one evening he would spare to have him round. They went to M&S and James lost Sooty. His dad couldn't be bothered to look for him and when James was inconsolable he took him back to my sister and said he was annoyed with his crying and wasn't letting him stay the night. The next day even though my sister worked she made the trip with James to M&S and they had kept Sooty there in the store room and returned him to his sad owner. James said that he was happy now. Thinking of when I was a child I never forgot a lost toy or ones that I found!

That's a lovely story Sally - how times have changed! By the way I would never have guessed that you were a child at the end of WW2 - you are looking great!

Yes Cathy me too - we have had some frantic searched for my boys favourite toys in the past - including lifting drains and doing lots of sterilising!!!! One of the funniest was when my Joe lost his favourite Sooty (yes Sooty is a firm favourite in our family!) in a shop called the Reject Shop at Merry Hill. I ran back in the shop in a panic leaving little Joe outside with my sister. There was a woman handing in Sooty at the counter and I shouted "That's my Sooty!" all across the shop and with no child in tow I looked mighty silly!