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.
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“Haste makes waste,” they say, and it certainly ruined me here on 12. Falling behind the pack and trying to play catch-up on this long 575-yard par 5.
Off the tee felt great and got good distance. My second stroke carried well and put me within 150 yards of the pin. I wanted a little insurance against that huge trap guarding the fore of the green, so I put some extra into my 7-iron and got more than I wanted in return.
Happily, the shot cleared the trap as planned. Sadly, it also cleared the green. ALL of it. The ball dropped beyond the green, just shy of the cart path, bounded over that and embedded itself into the sand under the small stand of trees.
I pitched out OK but got more roll than I’d hoped, and finished out the hole with a two-putt Bogey.
So, I drop to 1 under par and trudge off to the 13th, which I’ll play over the weekend, and meet you all on 14 Monday.
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Got your 1,385 slotted in for hole 12... will record your hole 13 score when you play it...
Yay, Frank’s team! (Please excuse delay—we had tornado touchdown and power outage.)
Thank you. I hope everything is okay there today.
PAR!
Such a nice-sounding word, “par.”
Critics may say, “Well, but ‘par’ is only average.”
Such “critics” haven’t ever played golf.
Par is, for the average golfer, like a mirage: you think you’re going to get to it, only to see it resolve into cold reality. Hole after hole. As one whose swung the club a little bit, if you offer me par, I’m wise enough to take it.
So, today out here on the 13th, my tee shot set up a chip onto the green that set up a short putt to hole in in three strokes. Par. I’ll take it.
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I think par is better than average.
Busy day here. Hot.
I hope everyone is OK and all is fine now.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
M-I-L isn’t doing well. She’s been mostly sleeping and not eating since Friday. This time is longer than the last few times so we’re not sure whether she’ll snap out of it again or not.
It’s rainy and cold today. The foreguess calls for some snow, but I’ve rejected that call.
I haven’t been able to get to the Wordolf course today. I’ll post a score later.
Hoping that there wasn’t too much damage and that y’all are alright...
Hoping that M-I-L isn’t suffering at this point... 🙏🏼
Good Monday Morning!
We certainly had a chilly weekend... got down to 36° overnight... but now the sun is out and it should be warming up a bit over the next couple of days...
Being wary of all of that sand and water, I approached the 14th in a very measured and workmanlike manner... took me 4 strokes to get on the green, but it provided a pretty simple putt for Par...
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Heading to the 15th with a 57, still at 1 over par...
She’s mostly sleeping now. Last night her caregiver managed to have her drink a glass of water when the caregiver went in to shift her position in the bed.
It seems like she probably had another TIA, but we didn’t see it hit. We have security cameras monitoring her and the caregivers now but we don’t see anything on them, either.
In any case, if she’s feeling pain, she’s not talking about it.
That sounds as well as can be expected at this point...
On a client site this AM... Bright, sunny, and cool... Perfectly dry and excellent road conditions, so of course MN drives were being complete idiots and driving 15 MPH on the freeway... I hate this State.
Good drive from the tee... but nothing special. Went with a #3 iron that didn’t have quite enough leg to hit the green. A second shot with the iron overshot the green and I had to chip back on. Putt was a bit uphill and against the grain, but still dropped into the cup.
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You had a better showing than I did.
For a “simple” par 3 I managed to seriously overcomplicate this hole. My 2nd drive put me into the trap on the right. I was so concerned about chipping it over the green that I went to short and rolled back down into the trap. The second try got me onto the green so I could putt in for a double-bogey.
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(And for the true Wordle - I had an unforced error on my 3rd guess where all the known letters were put in the same place, so that’s rolling back into the same trap I was trying to chip out of.)
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