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Can they knit us some real chocolate eggs as well, please?

Nothing gets you in the mood for a bank holiday like a good ol' yarn.

An anonymous knitter has brightened up a road in Liverpool by carefully covering the top of a Royal Mail postbox with a knitted woollen hat.

It shows a classic Easter scene – that is, chicks frolicking on woollen grass with eggs, rather than an intricate recreation of Jesus’ resurrection (though that would be impressive).

As yet, no one knows who’s responsible for jazzing up the postbox on Booker Avenue in Allerton, a suburb in the city's south east corner, but it's proving popular on social media.

Writing on Facebook, one person said: “It’s a lovely idea, enough gloom in the world. Enjoy every day.”

Another added: “Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to brighten the day.”

And rather predictably a lot people described it as “egg-cellent” (please, people – we need a ban on egg puns).

Some suspect that the vigilante yarnbomber may have been part of the group that covered postboxes with Christmas-themed toppers last December.

Most of those festive toppers featured the usual stuff – penguins and Christmas trees, mainly – but one rather delightfully had another small, knitted postbox on it.

However, if it is the same person, they’d have to have travelled quite a distance, as most of the Christmas ones were found in Hertfordshire.

The Christmas knitters, who described themselves as a 'secret society', hoped to raise around £1,000 for a local hospice.

One of the group, Susannah Carr, told the that they had worked on them from January to November – which is a lot of forward planning.

“I thought Hertford needs a little bit of fun,” she said at the time.

Indeed.

And Liverpool has been yarn-bombed before.

In May last year, more than 1,000 knitted love hearts were draped around Toxteth – and it wasn’t even Valentine’s Day.

Those were left around the neighbourhood by a group of volunteers called Knit Toxteth, who told the at the time that it was “just a project to bring people together” rather than being for any particular holiday.

In any case, this postbox hat is the cutest thing we've seen so far this Easter - a little different from freakish foods and these 'bunny brows' people are into now.

And maybe someone will be kind enough to leave some chocolate Easter eggs tucked inside it for us to find?

Hint hint.