<story><title>Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60121185</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>technothrasher</author><text>I wrote a message in a bottle when I was young.  I still have very dim memories of being excited at the possibility that somebody in another country years later would find it.  According to my folks, however, there were some issues.  First, I was four years old and couldn&amp;#x27;t write, and second, I threw the bottle into a small pond.  But my parents didn&amp;#x27;t want to dampen my enthusiasm at the time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60121185</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>&amp;gt; found bottle in 2020&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Norwegian sent a Facebook message for Joanna, but the former Peterhead schoolgirl did not spot it until Monday [January 2022]&lt;p&gt;This pretty much sums up Facebook&amp;#x2F;Instagram inboxes.</text></comment>