Apologies for the late arrival of the Morning Kitteh. I blame sneezing, and you can't prove it's not true.
Posted on 11/26/2024 11:19:27 AM PST by Red Badger
No matter what students bring to future "show and tells" at Orchard Junior School in the Southampton area of England, they will never be able to top this year's spectacle that shut down and evacuated the school.
One bonkers little tyke brought in a bit of vintage "unexploded ordinance" to show his mates.
The school quickly evacuated all the students, called the police, and texted the parents:
Schools are being closed & evacuated - please collect your child from Noadswood field ASAP.
Imagine getting that little note in the middle of the school day.
Laura Holloway, a mother of one of the students was at work at the time. She said,
It was so worrying. Another parent had called saying there were police everywhere. I knew my youngest would have been so scared.
But, she added:
Both schools seemed to deal with it all very well and had the kids lined up and checked off - it must have been very upsetting for everyone involved.
Once the students were out, the police showed up and sent in the bomb squad.
The police's full statement said: ‘We were called at about 1.30pm to a report that a child had brought what may have been a potentially unexploded ordnance to Orchard Junior School.
‘The school was calmly evacuated and a disposal team attended to take the item away to be destroyed as a precaution.'
Not an easy task by any means.
The real question everyone wants to know is "What kind of ‘historic incendiary device' are we talking about here?"
This is England after all. They've been blowing stuff up and getting blown up for centuries.
It could've been anything from a 16th-century mortar to a WWII hand grenade to that morning's beans on toast.
Everyone here goes to Walmart.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
M-I-L had another bad night last night. This one caregiver is feeling cursed. We’ve proven the theory false that she has worse nights if Mrs. ArGee or I don’t visit that day.
It’s still cold here. We had a dusting of snow this morning, but nothing to actually impact anything.
I had a good Wordle outing, today. Nice and symmetrical.
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I’ve been up for a while but was over on Facebook, looking for trouble.
She wasn’t there, though, so I’m back. The UT is off to a slow start this AM.
Sorry to hear about your M-i-Ls distress last night. That can’t be easy for anyone.
Good job on the Wordle!
Good morning, everyone. I’m here! It’s cold. Vlad’s leaving for school. I’ll bet Frank went back to bed again ...
Good Morning!
Have a few days to get ready for another “big freeze,” relatively speaking... spent some time in the greenhouse yesterday afternoon transplanting things that were overgrowing their containers into larger pots...
Ho-hum Wordle today, bonehead error on row two didn’t help much...
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Good morning.
I woke up thanks to an update on my phone, only to come out here and find an update on my laptop as well. What a revoltin’ development this is!
And no Floof to start my day!
Fortunately for you and me, we probably won’t live to see the day when we wake up to an updated neuro-link.
“Alexa, turn on the shower and set the water temp to 72 degrees”
“There’s been an update. I’ve transitioned. I should now be addressed as Alexander The Great.”
No thanks!
We’ve got another 25° right now, and a high forguessed at 53° for the day. No change since October. Unngh.
Used up all my vowels save 1... Still ran through a ton of 4 and 6 letter words in my head before guessing...
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Heat wave... currently 31 here... Have another cold snap coming next week though.
Taking my kids to see the new Nosferatu movie this weekend. We’re going to Goth-up a bit to go see it. At LAST!!! An opportunity to wear my top hat in public...
Apologies for the late arrival of the Morning Kitteh. I blame sneezing, and you can't prove it's not true.
I heard sneezing, but couldn’t tell which Habitat it was coming from.
Kitteh looks bored!
I have to sort pills in a bit. The high point of my day! Maybe I’ll work on that grocery list...
So many choices.... My goodness!
I think that most of us are going to have a cold snap next week….
The show sounds like fun, I will have look that up…
Looks like quite a good gothic horror film…. enjoy!
One old Moody Blues song started out:
Black thing billowing, bursting forth with the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes.
So I guess you can blame sneezing.
Google says the song is “Higher and Higher”.
T-minus 20 minutes...
Assuming proper conditions, they will attempt another “catch” of the booster section.
Plus, will be testing the “pez dispenser” satellite deployment with actual Star Link modules...
Awesome! Turned it on just in time to see the booster catch!
That was amazing... Looks like S33 is dead. Possible rapid disassembly...
Love the morning kittehs regardless of when they arrive.
Thank you!
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