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.
That makes sense... the entry doorway (with the actual door) is probably out of the picture to the left...
The Quarry was built on the site of an old sand/gravel and iron ore mining operation and is now the #1 public golf course in Minnesota, according to Golf Digest. Since its opening, it has been ranked in the top 20 public courses in the United States every year it has been eligible. It is truly a unique experience for Minnesota golfers, and one that compliments the traditional feel of The Legend course.
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Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
S-I-L wants a walk-through of the house when she “gets back” from wherever she is. Mrs. ArGee is hoping she won’t have to listen to too much wheedling. We’ll start the distribution of the stuff after we file probate, not before.
Nobody in this generation of that family is hurting for money. But I think there will be lots of quibbling over who gets what.
Today was not my day to start a new round of Wordolf. My first drive went a nice 280 yards right into that hollow to the left of the green. A 100 yard chip shot put me right on that mound between the two sand traps, which meant that the bit of back-spin on the ball caused it to roll into the trap on the left. Getting out of the trap put me on the edge of the green, allowing me to sink a 10 foot putt in 2 shots.
Well, there’s always tomorrow.
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“I think there will be lots of quibbling over who gets what.”
I hope it ends with people still speaking to one another.
Actually, the family seems to be good at holding grudges. Mrs. ArGee talks about never having to interact with her sisters again after this is done.
I was raised that you stay close to family whether you like them or not, because they’re family. That was actually modeled for these kids by their dad, but it’s not something that seems to have taken.
Good Midweek Morning!
It is looking like we better be enjoying our calm, dry weather for the rest of the week, since it looks to be a bit stormy starting this weekend...
On the first hole of this new course I used a 3 wood off the tee and landed somewhere in the fairway a bit less than 200 yards out... had a good feeling with that club in hand so I played it off the fairway as well and got some really nice loft... was on the green in two and setup for a make-able putt for the Birdie 3...
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Heading to the 2nd hole at 1 under...
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It is now Monday, April 16th, 2025.
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Monday. Wednesday... Maybe I should finish my coffee before posting...
We're kind of in the middle. It's okay not to be close to family, but you should be friendly and not fighting over stuff. It's working out well for my brother and me, and my own children - once they don't have to live together - all get along tolerably. Some are close - Anoreth and Bill, Tom and Elen - but all of them are okay.
It’s Wednesday here. Frank came down this morning and said, “It’s Thursday!” Uh, no.
I haven’t seen him in a while: he may have gone back to bed to wait for Thursday.
Hahaha, great start to the new round, be it Wednesday or Monday... have you ever been to Biwabik, MN?
I would say that we are sort of in that middle ground as well... Mrs zz’s family tends to lean a bit more to the everyone has to be close side... except for one sister... 🤷🏽♂️
So, by “close” I meant that you communicate with them and don’t create bad blood, not that they are best friends. So, probably like what T-C said.
Frank and I are both experiencing temporal dysphoria. I feel I am in good company...
No... Closest I’ve come is Two Harbors. My Uncle had a place there. My Step-Aunt still lives there, but we don’t hear much from her since he died... It’s been almost 8 years now.
Yes, pretty much so...
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