Sorry about the delay in the Morning Kitteh today. I was discombobulated, though not in quite as difficult a situation as this cat!
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.
Whoops, sorry about that. I had a podiatrist appointment this morning and didn’t all my usual morning stuff done!
Sorry about the delay in the Morning Kitteh today. I was discombobulated, though not in quite as difficult a situation as this cat!
That cat is caught in the stocks... 😮
It’s OK that you don’t get your UT morning stuff done. I just wanted to be sure you’re OK.
Good morning. Happy Friday!
I seem to have solved a problem with Teams un-sharing my screen at random moments during remote meetings. If only I knew which of the many things I tried actually fixed it. Or maybe it was a Teams update that probably happened in the midst of everything else. The mysteries of the cyberverse.
Kitteh needs to stay out of the shoe polish, maybe.
According to the guesses, today is now the coolest day of the spell and things will start warming up for the long weekend. I need to address the lawn at the home of the former in-laws this weekend so it’s good I have an extra day.
I got a real lucky break on my second Wordle guess today.
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Good Friday Morning!
Someone left the inkpad open on the desk!
Just a few more days here to get outside stuff done until the rains come... it would be nice if they were gentle soaking rains this time around.... 🤞🏻
Rough start but fruitful row two today...
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Happy Friday ya’all... We made it to another one... 48 and sunny going to 71 later today. Mostly 70’s and dry on tap for the weekend. Might be a LITTLE bit too cool to head to the beach, but might be warm enough to get some fishing done.
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Sounds like you have a great weekend ahead!
At the risk of making myself hungry again, any special plans for the weekend?
I have some work to catch up on both here in the Apartment and now I have to take care of the house so I’ll just be taking care of stuff.
I get an extra day... Which will be nice. I hope we all have a great weekend. :-)
My goal is to get that corner of replacement fencing done before the rains come... I can then let the cows back into the main pasture...
The pups have asked Mrs. zz to cook a rack of beef ribs tomorrow (they get the bones!)... I’m sure well get around to grilling some cheeseburgers and hot dogs before the weekend is over...
Indeed! Enjoy!
Enjoy your Memorial Day holiday this weekend.
You as well, don’t work too hard!
Wow. Stunning cat!
The poster said that he adopted a black kitten from the shelter, and then the kitten grew this crazy gray beard.
Beautiful. They should try to breed that. A generic defect most likely, or one of the parents was Persian or something.
I expect it’s the result of previously unknown ancestry.
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