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 The affection shows up as mail. Humphrey gets fan letters, and every December, cards addressed simply to "The Camel" find their way to the Hoopers. He's dressed for the calendar too, in a Christmas hat over the holidays and a sun hat when the weather turns, changes made by hand by whoever's on camel duty that week.

-Forty years outdoors wears on chicken wire, and by 2020 Humphrey needed more than a hat. Andy Bennett, a BBC Somerset presenter and member of the local carnival club — the same circuit that built Humphrey in the first place — heard the Hoopers were looking for someone to patch him up and repainted him. It's a small, unpaid, entirely voluntary bit of upkeep, and it's the reason the camel drivers wave at today is still recognisably the one from the float: no artist, no unveiling, no budget, just one family's field and a Young Farmers' entry that never really ended.
+Forty years outdoors wears on chicken wire, and by 2020 Humphrey needed more than a hat. Andy Bennett, a BBC Somerset presenter and member of the local carnival club — the same circuit that built Humphrey in the first place — heard the Hoopers were looking for someone to patch him up and repainted him. It's a small, unpaid, entirely voluntary bit of upkeep, and it's the reason the camel that drivers wave at today is still recognisably the one from the float: no artist, no unveiling, no budget, just one family's field and a Young Farmers' entry that never really ended.