Creme Egg Crime Cracked

 

I’m sure you are aware of the Cadbury’s Creme Egg. It was ranked as the most famous confectionary in a poll in 2019. A Cadbury’s milk chocolate egg (the size of a normal chicken’s egg) with a white and yellow fondant filling. The company makes a staggering 1.5 million crème eggs a day, up to 200million a year. No yoke!

Well I don’t know if you spotted the news earlier in the week, but 200,000 of the tasty little beauties were stolen in a raid from an industrial unit in Telford last Saturday. But wonderfully the West Mercia police force managed to track down the criminal, a 32 year old man of no fixed abode, when they stopped a vehicle on the M42 just a short while later.

The news feeds had some great headlines:

·        ITV “Police go on Easter Egg Hunt”

·        The Shropshire Star “Police save Easter after theft of almost 200,000 crème eggs in Telford.

·        RTE “Police crack case as 200k stolen crème eggs recovered!”

Cracking job guys.

With just a week to go until pancake day, which marks 40 days from the start of Easter, the supermarkets will be stacking their shelves with eggs soon.

The poking up of a few green shoots in the garden and the prospect of Easter on the way are quite welcome thoughts after a cold and fairly miserable winter.

The Christian faith is all about new beginnings, and good news in the place of bad news. Stolen goods returned. That’s actually a picture of us! For the Christian, we were like lost property, but God has returned us back to himself, our rightful owner.

Peter says “For ‘you were like sheep going astray,’ but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls”. That’s good news. Call out to Jesus Christ and he will return you to your rightful owner.

Well it just remains for me to say have an eggcellent day, and hope you don’t crack under pressure as you go about on the roads or off to work.  

Charlie Newcombe, 15/02/23