A seven-year-old boy from Sheffield tossed a message in a bottle into the North Sea and was amazed to receive 22 replies - on his birthday!
Finley Hibberd from Lowedges, threw the bottle into the sea at Bridlington with the message, “Hello My Name is Finely. I am from Sheffield, England. Please tell me where you found my bottle.”
Over a month later - and on his birthday - he received 22 letters in the post. Expecting them to be birthday cards, he ripped them open to find that they were replies from children at Staindrop School in County Durham.
Finley said, “It was amazing. I didn’t think I would get anything back but I got all these letters. I am going to stay in touch and write letters back.”
Finley’s mum, Jenny Hyatt, said, “We threw it into the sea but didn’t expect anything back. When he received all the cards on his birthday he thought had had just got loads of birthday cards. It is an exciting thing to do - everyone should have a go.”
