A woman who missed her opportunity to travel the world while she was alive was burned, turned to ashes, locked in a glass bottle, and launched into the sea by her daughter so she could finally achieve her dream as a veritable British genie. She didn’t get very far.
Cara Melia’s mother had spent her life looking after her five kids, and then her brother and mum when the kids left. She had never had the chance to pursue her dreams. Wendy Chadwick, the ever-caring woman, died at only 51 years old. She had given all her time to the care of others and had no chance to live her own life.
When she passed, her family didn’t know what to do with her ashes. Initially, they wanted to scatter them on the beach. The kids thought that bringing her to Skegness, the family’s local coastal town, would be nice. They planned to scatter her ashes on the beach.
If anyone scattered my ashes on a UK beach, I would violently haunt them until the end of time. Thankfully, the best friend of Cara had a better idea. They should put the woman’s ashes in a bottle and chuck her in the sea. That way, she can see the world from her bottle-bound, one-woman cruise.
Safely corked and accompanied by a note, the mother was thrown into the Skegness sea to venture across the globe. They should have checked the tides and thrown her a little harder, though.
12-Hour Pleasure Cruise For Bottled Mother
Only 12 hours later, a Facebook post popped up on a local page. Someone had picked the bottle containing the woman’s ashes up from another Skegness beach. They found the note inside reading “This is my mum. Throw her back in, she’s travelling the world,” along with the name of the daughter.
The post hoped to find the daughter and let her know their mum was safely on her way, this time with a better launch. “We found this lovely lady earlier today at Butlins, Skegness beach. She’s been thrown back in the sea as requested. Happy travels, Cara’s Mum.”
It managed to get back to Cara, and she was disappointed that her mum’s ashes weren’t in the Bahamas already. “Nobody was meant to find her for a bit,” she told the BBC. “She was meant to be in a completely different country.”
Some people aren’t meant to travel, even when they’re ashes in a bottle.