Thanks to Mayflower Madam for the cats this week, while I was at camp, where it was extremely hot and there were no cats.
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.
Ha, I should have read down in the thread a bit further... 8 hours is fantastic!
Thanks to Mayflower Madam for the cats this week, while I was at camp, where it was extremely hot and there were no cats.
And I say to the cat:
Do you not know that we will judge angels?
—1 Corinthians 6:3
Well played!
Good morning. Happy Monday!
Cat tai-chi? Whoodathunkit?
It was only 60 fs when I walked The Princess this morning. It’s supposed to get up to 80 today.
I got all the moss-like ground cover off the flower beds around the inlaws house (finally) and sorted/shredded everything except the tax returns. He had kept copies of all of them from 1955. I hope I don’t burn out the shredder.
The house appraiser is coming this week. So is B-I-L. Hopefully the latter can make all the decisions he needs to on stuff so we can start giving the family members what they’ve asked for. There is light at the end of this tunnel.
Not an oncoming train.
Today’s Wordle had a surpising plot twist at the end.
Wordle 1,472 4/6
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Good morning! Everything looks easy for cats.
It was in the 70s when I got up and will be 90 later. Probably won’t rain.
Congratulations on your progress with the in-laws’ stuff and house.
Good Monday Morning!
For some reason I slept so poorly that I had to go back to bed and restart the day...
Good that you are seeing light at the end of that tunnel!
So-so Wordle today...
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Better than yesterday’s grim 5...
Happy Monday... Raining when I left the house... stopped like 2 minutes later... Go figure...
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Recently I reordered my whole trip for supplies based on the forecast for heavy thunderstorms for most of the day... ended up driving through about 5 minutes of rain for the whole trip....
I got a 5 yesterday and a 6 on Saturday. Both were cases where I had just enough known letters to open up a raft of possibilities.
Saturday night I went to walk The Princess before bed. The phone and my look out the windows said “light showers” so we headed on out. Between the time I got us ready and we opened the door it was pouring rain. After she quickly got her business done and we came back in, the rain went back to a light shower.
I have no idea what either of us did to deserve that.
Nicely timed photograph.
Good of you to stop to take the photo.
The highest I’ve gotten was a little over 265,000.
Doubly well timed, 111.1 miles since I filled the tank....
Wow!
230,000 miles on it... what kind is it?
Yes, I call them “bad patterns!”
Subaru Outback
I heard that they run for a long time! Nice and clean looking inside…
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