We needed some hankies and I remembered I had an old pink gingham school shirt in my scrap bag.

I’d got the shirt secondhand from a charity shop in Liverpool in about 1999 but I’ve put a littleweight on since then so it didn’t fit any more, and it had little sweat stains under the arms and it had a run-in with something dyed at some point so wasn’t good enough for a charity shop. For something to wipe our noses on though? Perfect.

I got six hankies out of the sleeves and front panels – I’ll save the back for something else.