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.
Good morning. They look like nice cats ... but then, they all do ...
the laying kittahs lay (undisturbed) ……..
Cats have an easy life.
I’ll bite. Where are Bluetooths in the Bible?
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
It’s a little warmer this morning than yesterday. 9fs is warmer than -6fs. However, it wasn’t really noticeable. The Princess is still getting her “business” done very quickly when we go out.
She’ll be clipped on Monday. Hopefully she won’t freeze to death.
B-I-L is coming in on Saturday for a few days. I think we’re all concerned that M-I-L doesn’t have long. She was less alert yesterday than the day before, so we’re probably in a period of ups and downs.
My good Wordle streak was short but sweet.
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Good morning. Is there a reason the Princess needs to be clipped while it’s freezing, as opposed to later in the year when it’s warm?
Yes, after that 2021 winter ice storm, there were new poles installed all over the place...
Thnaks!
I will be glad when it moves northward as well! Very glad!
They’ll clip her a little longer in the winter than in the summer. But she’s getting long enough that pulling the comb through her fur is problematic. She gets more feisty during coming with each passing day.
Pairables
Tricky one today...
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Happy Friday Eve...
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I see. I had daughters like that.
The ups and downs are certainly stressful for the family... especially on the emotional front...
Good Morning!
One more night of sub-freezing temps and the warmup will emerge... another nice sunny day on tap here...
I thought that this Wordle was going to be a real struggle session, but I got lucky on row three and it turned out to be so-so...
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Awww....sweet.
Good morning.
I’m finally here. It was 0100 before I woke up the first time, then suddenly, it was 0640. Yeah, I can remember a time when 0700 was the norm, but that was when I wasn’t going to sleep until 2300.
Still all that’s going on today is pill sorting so I should be OK.
It’s a bit warmer today, at 27° but I still turned on the heater in the living room to take the chill off. I’m sure Chip appreciates that. With me almost on top of the heater in the kitchen, I don’t even go into the living room until it has warmed up a bit. Usually, the sun does the warming before I ever get in there.
Good morning. Cold here, too.
They rally and then relapse until they just finally don’t come out of the relapse. I’m sorry to hear that, though.
B-i-L will notice the change in her more acutely than you, who have been so close to her for so long.
The adjustment without her will be tough, for a while, and as usual, I’m sending prayers up.
Yep, that’s the thing with Wordle — the streaks of good days never seem to cancel out the bad days!
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