This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in this edition, an unusual version of a message in a bottle.

Even when things are really tough then, you know that you're going to find something to be happy about in it.

When you get to the other side of it, you are

going to be smiling at some point.

Why one woman decided to send her mum's ashes on a journey around the world.

How breeding deer helped a remarkable recovery for endangered tigers in Thailand and...

My favourite part about the hospital model is that they can go to their room and jump on the

bed, right? Gain a little more agency back.

How computer games can help make hospitals more fun for children.

We start with a story about trying to find happiness whilst grieving for a loved one.

Kara Melia's mother, Wendy Chadwick, passed away at the age of 51 from an undiagnosed heart condition.

Determined to keep her dream of travelling the world alive,

Kara put some of Wendy's ashes in a bottle and launched it out

to sea with a note that says, this is my mum. Throw her back in, she's travelling the world.

Well, the bottle entered the water in the English seaside town of Skegness, and when someone posted on

social media that they'd found it on a nearby beach, the story went viral.

Kara spoke to the Happy Pod's Holly Gibbs and started by telling her what Wendy was like.

She was amazing.

She was just like the heart of the family.

She was quirky. She was different. She never wanted to fit in.

She never got the chance to really travel since she was a kid,

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