Eddy's Good News: Message on an egg and the trek for a mental health charity

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11 Sep 2023, 09:29

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!

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Monday 11th September 2023

I’ve featured several ‘message in a bottle’ stories here, but this is the first message on an egg story as we meet a 92 year old lady who wrote her hopeful missive on an egg in 1951, and it’s just been responded to 72 years later!

Mary Foss worked in an egg packing plant in Iowa in the fifties and she and some friends thought it would be fun to write notes on eggs bound for the east coast, to see if they could get a penpal from glamorous New York City, where Mary had never been. “If you find this egg please write me” plus their names and the date, April 2 1951. Mary wrote on five eggs to increase her chances.

The years then decades went by, and the story became a dinner party tale, Mary blissfully unaware that one of her eggs had found its way into a collection of antiques. It passed from collector to collector and ended up on a Facebook page of weird and wonderful antiques that need to be shared. Once it hit the internet, of course, the sleuths were all over it…people LOVE sleuthing stuff on the internet, it’s a thing, so despite the passing of an entire lifetime and Mary changing her name when she got married, the sleuths found her! The owner has talked to Mary on the phone and they plan to meet, so Mary got her penpal, 72 years later than she expected, but what a lovely end to a lovely story.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Today we meet a mental health charity volunteer who embarks on a trek between two famous English suicide spots, to highlight those who are struggling and show there is another way, to talk to someone.

Neil Read is a volunteer for the peer to peer mental health charity, My Black Dog, a Carfest Charity that utilises people who’ve been through their own struggle in the past, to help those who are struggling right now. Neil is currently trekking from Beachy Head in Eastbourne to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. 

Neil wanted to do this trek now to coincide with National Suicide Prevention Day yesterday and said of his epic trek: “I am doing this for My Black Dog, to raise awareness and vital funds for a charity that saved my life and allowed my daughter to still have a daddy”.

The treks he does help not just the charity, but the walking and time spent in nature help Neil to deal with his own struggles and he aims to inspire others via his Trekking With My Black Dog Instagram page, where you can follow his progress and donate to his Just Giving page.

Via: justgiving.com