This year Build-A-Bear Workshop partnered with BBC Children in Need for the seventh year to raise funds to positively change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.

To celebrate this collaboration, Build-A-Bear Workshop have introduced a new friend of Pudsey in Spots of Fun Pup with £1 from each sale being donated to BBC Children in Need. In addition to this the special Pudsey PJs can be added to any furry friend and provides a £2 donation to BBC Children in Need.

Now whilst BBC Children In Need Appeal night has come and gone, Build-A-Bear Workshop will continue to host Spots of Fun Pup in-store until the end of the year to collect further proceeds to support BBC Children In Need.

Spots would make a lovely Christmas present with his super soft fur.

I new I'd like the relaunch of My Little Pony for a few reasons. The manag-sequel reimagining of the 1980s' cartoon series of my youth is highly heralded as superb from young and old. The clever and funny themes explored in My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic has gathered the makers a rather unusual adult following. Male adults who are obsessed with the characters call themselves, "bronies" as in 'bro' and 'ponies'.

So with the Internet littered with Pony memes and macros, I assumed I would enjoy the actual cartoon. All that has stopped me seeing it until now is not having a Sky channel that shows it. This week Netflix added the My Little Pony Equestria Girls film, and loved it. I've a feeling I will get sucked into the series too, so I will have to get the DVDs.

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So next, do I buy myself a My Little Pony T-shirt?