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.
Good afternoon. Happy Twosday!
Sorry for being tardy. I went to the transfer station the next town up to get rid of some things our local transfer station wouldn’t take. I didn’t check that they were open today and they weren’t. Fortunately the town has 2 and the other one was open. So I got back to owrk about 9 and jumped right in.
I’m taking B-I-L to the airport today. Mrs. ArGee got the approval of everyone’s wish lists so people can start removing things people wanted from the house. We hope to talk with realtors next week.
Wordle was a bit of a struggle today.
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The pattern is a kitteh “Kilroy was here”
w00t!
“Come now, let us settle the matter,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.”
Bad kitteh has been blessed.
Thanks, yes a very symmetrical pattern….
YOU were tardy...
Look at me coming in on the late flight. LOL.
Did about a tenth of what I really wanted to over the long weekend. Low back is getting a bit iffy. Moving certain ways I can feel my sciatic nerve begin to indicate that it’s not entirely happy. I have an inversion chair, and may press it into more frequent service; particularly just before bed. Stretch, hydrate and get horizontal so the discs in the lumbar can have as much opportunity as possible to recoup.
Everything I was on the verge of done with a couple months ago at work is all redesigned, now, and I’m — once again — on the verge of done.
That third square in the second set of clues really helped put me onto the scent. Still, a somewhat scantily-educated guess, but t’was enough.
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One of my daughters has a white cat. She (the cat) has several chronic health problems. The daughter is kind of a hypochondriac, too.
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
B-I-L is safely back home. He managed to get some local storage so he can pick up his stuff on his schedule. His daughter is getting married soon so he probably can’t come back here until September. Anyway, yesterday we got the rest of his stuff into his storage container. Back to junk removal.
I did a little better at Wordle today. Yesterday I was on my third guess thinking I had the last letter when I realized it was not the last letter. It messed up guess 2. I guess it’s really not good to mess with my morning routine.
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I find that swinging a baseball bat from both directions several times is useful if I feel a touch of sciatic coming on... the twisting motions seems to get the twists out of the spine...
Good Midweek Morning!
I’d imagine the end of the junk removal must be nearing...
Maybe we will see more than some spotty sunshine here today... maybe...
Very similar path and result as yesterday, but without the symmetry...
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Sunny and cool, while moving at least, so I left my house a little early and took back roads in to work on Abby... Very pleasent way to kick off a Wodin’s Day.
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In other news, I now know a bunch of words that don’t actually exist according to the pattern established on line 2.
Interesting.
I don’t suppose you make sure liberals are around when doing that?
It would probably have been faster if we'd just ordered a roll-off, but Mrs. ArGee didn't want to spend the Estate money and didn't want the look of "nobody lives here" at the house.
I think we'll be there on Saturday after I make 3-4 runs to transfer stations. Mrs. ArGee has actually made a couple of runs to the local one today.
Wordle is fun for learning words.
For examle, I didn’t know AUTIC was acutally a word until I guessed it the other day. It then made the actual (and much more normal word that I wasn’t thinking of) obvious.
Enjoy the rode back!
Best not to do in a crowd of people!
That’s true... the dumpster sitting there would give that impression... glad that it is almost over...
“Take the long way home...” - Supertramp
I always like to re-write Supertramp’s “Dreamer” as “Beemer”.
Just for the long way home, of course.
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