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.
😂
Perfect!
So, that place looks to be pretty far north.... would it even be open yet for golf, or still too cold?
Doesn’t look like ice is off the lakes up there yet... Not sure on snow cover.
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ice_out/index.html
Hmmm, so if the water traps are frozen, then it would be an easier time to play, right?
Use florescent green or blaze orange balls... Sure. Go for it.
So, some half of our apartment just lost power. I checked and all the circuits are on. National Grid has confirmed an outage.
It seems strange that 2 circuits from the utility power our apartment. I think other apartments have the same setup.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t open until much later in the spring..
I was gone all day shopping, went a day earlier this week… power restored?
Yes, our power is back. It was out about 2 hours. Fortunately, the fridge was on the circuit that never lost power.
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With the substantial incursion on the left about 300 yards out, if you choose a drive from the tee, this first hole can be played like a dog-leg left. So I went with power off the first tee, and took a bearing to the right, on a line for the first distant tree to the right of the bunkers shielding the green. With the benefit of the drop into that crossing canyon, the shot carried a shade over 300 yards to a lie safely in the fairway to the right of, and beyond, the Chasm of Woes. From this grievous pit emanate, day and night, cries of anguish and sulphurous profanities. As I approached the place where my ball had come to rest, I saw a wizened groundskeeper — maybe Vietnam vintage — stowing in his service truck a small collection of mangled clubs he’d apparently retrieved from the gulf.
Now about 140 yards to the pin, I played a 7-iron second shot hoping to stay high over the sand traps and drop more or less straight down into the heart of the green with perhaps some roll toward the cup. As it happened, I did clear the bunkers, but only just, and I got no roll to speak of. My ball plopped down in that narrow thread between the right-hand bunker and the putting surface. The groundskeeper eyed me with an expression that said, “Lucky you,” doffed his ballcap to me, and motored off in his cart as I started toward the green. I smiled, and waved as he passed, catching a fragment of his name embroidered on his shirt just below the course logo: “Mr. Ali—something—ri.” “Huh. Italian,” I thought.
Putting from the fringe... well... I’d been here, before, and the undulations of this particular green multiplied my improbabilities. Reading the green straight to the cup, the green fell to the left, crested, then broke right with the flag planted well to the right of center. One might have some decent hope that a stroke aimed directly at the pin would break left then back right in more or less equal measure, so I made the attempt. The ball slows enough with distance, however, that the rightward break grows more pronounced than the initial left, and though my putt had the distance, it trailed away to a stop roughly 18 inches to the right of the hole.
A tap-in fourth stroke, and I notch par as we get rolling here in this tumultuous green hillscape at The Quarry.
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Weird.
Wow! An incredible narrative.... I felt like I was walking right along with you there!
Good Morning!
They promise a bit of sun for this afternoon, then guess no more until Monday... we will see...
On hole 2 a decent tee shot brought me to the far end of the cut to the left... got under my second shot a bit and ended up in the middle the next cut... got on in three with a nice 7 iron swing... if I was not completely filled with luck, I could have easily 3-putted this crazy green... but somehow it dropped for the Birdie 4... 🙃
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Heading to the 3rd hole at two under...
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
This is Young ArGee’s last day before she heads back. Her flight tomorrow is at something like 0630 so I’ll have to have her at the airport very early. Saturday we’ll be catching up on making food for The Princess since we didn’t make any last weekend. Unfortunately, our refrigerator isn’t big enough to hold makings for 2 weeks so we have to catch up over a few weekends.
I called the Allstate guy about changing the insurance on the house and he said he’d take care of it at the next billing date in September. Huh? He was willing to increase the coverage to account for the 24x7 caregivers on the day I called. But we have to wait until the next bill to reduce it? I’m going to let B-I-L do any arguing there.
Today I managed to clear that bit of nastiness (is there a “rougher” in golf?) right off the tee and land pretty much at the right edge of that first bit of fairway. It made the shot to the next bit of fairway a little tricky. I couldn’t go as deep as I might like because of my angle and that tree in front of me. From the second bit of fairway I got a pretty good shot in but landed in the hollow next to the big sand trap on the right. I was able to chip to the green near enough to the cup to sink my put for par. I go to hole 3 still 1 under.
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I believe that cat is one of the famous sandal sledders... talk of it being added to the Winter Olympics at some point...
IIRC, the cat is in Haiti and part of the Haitian National Sandal Sledding team.
I believe that their biggest competition comes from the Jamaican team... 🛷
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