Jenny dried the messages at home and found they were still readable and she even managed to track down the three girls who wrote it - they are now adults!
Did they really need to state this in the article? How many 40+ year old children are out there?! (40+ year old physical children at least. I know there are plenty of adults who have the emotional capacity of children.)
Since we are going there, how about “Imagine writing a message in a bottle only for it to be found 40 years later.” I mean, isn’t that usually the point of that endeavor?
The original trope of sending a message in a bottle was from someone stranded on a desert island whose only hope for contacting civilization was to send a message in a bottle. 40 years would be a long time to wait for rescue from a desert island.
Okay, I know that. Time and a message being found is still the point whether it takes 1 day, 40 years or never. Yes, 40 years is a long time to wait for rescue, but most people putting messages in bottles and casting them into the ocean are not relying on it to be rescued. Geez this got super pedantic.
40 years, the things poor Wilson would have seen…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Well, that’s exactly what’s happened when three schoolchildren in Scotland had their letters discovered by a woman who was taking part in a beach clean.
“The girl who drew the map had cleverly used wax crayon as the outside wrapping so it had protected it from some of the water that had managed to seep in.”
One of the notes that came with the bottle said they have been held captive by the “terrible Miss Elder” and makes them do “awful work like sums”!
Jenny dried the messages at home and found they were still readable and she even managed to track down the three girls who wrote it - they are now adults!
“It said they’d been taken captive on this HMS WPS, and it explained that this stood for Wormit Primary School.”
The school friends think they wrote the notes as part of a project when the topic of pirates was being studied.
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Ha! That message. Classic 8 year old.
