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.
Day 3 of The Big Comeback!
I’m getting back into it, but not as quickly as I would like. Still, so far, so good!
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TGIF abd all that...
Good job!
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Not as good a job, but at least I got it.
Good morning. We slept late, and now we’re loafing. It’s cold here, too.
Got any 4’s?
Some days, it’s good to loaf! Especially if it isn’t a Saturday!
It’s up to 39° now, so I can start the car without too much worry. I don’t know if it has anti-freeze in it or not, but I should take it to Casey and have him add some, along with windshield fluid that has some antifreeze in it. I just kept putting it off, but I don’t think I can any more.
It’s Friday the 13th. What do we expect?
Good show!
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That’s reminiscent of “Oh, Christmas tree, Oh, Christmas tree, Your ornaments are history.”
Hey, Y’all!
Hey!
We used to sing to the children:
No Christmas tree! No Christmas tree;
you may not eat the branches.
No Christmas tree! No Christmas tree;
you may not eat the branches.
You may not eat the ornaments;
you may not eat the colored lights.
No Christmas tree! No Christmas tree;
you may not eat the branches.
Hay !!! It ain’t just for animals anymore.
IT will result in increased strain on their retirement system so the government is gonna have to hold fast on any supplemental contribution requests..
Good Morning ArGee !!!
Sweet kitties!
Good morning.
I finally got the living room closet straightened up yesterday, and didn’t realize how tired it had made me. I blame all the medicines they’ve thrown at me. Anyway, I did wake up during the night about 0230, but not enough to do more than look at the clock.
I was going to dig out the Nativities, but all I could manage was the Lego one. Putting it back to it’s display form will take a while. But it will be out permanently. Just because I keep a few up all year.
I might try to vacuum today, but I’ll probably leave it for a few days. Chip doesn’t seem to be shedding much, now that the cold weather has set in, so I could do it with no problem. It depends on how I feel when the day is progressing. Chip seems to tolerate the vacuum quite well, so no worries there.
The only other things on the docket is to write to Charlie and get Christmas cards ready to go out to family. Later, I’ll sort laundry so I don’t have to do it tomorrow, as I hate spoiling the mood of the day.
Good morning. I talked to my mother this morning, and she asked whether we have a new cat yet. NO!
I’m cleaning the refrigerator, which had developed an unpleasant order for, I now perceive, several obvious reasons.
And maybe you won’t ever. But never say never. I said that after Sparkle but look at me now....
I’ve finished my letter to Charlie, but it’s still too cold (30°) to go over and drop it off in the mail drop. I’d have to wear my winter coat, and it won’t fit over a sweatshirt. (I wish I had a couple more of them. Two just isn’t enough for these winters.)
Sorry about your fridge science projects. Some get to be pretty stinky. I’m not quite that brave, though I should probably do it before the Other Folks get here. Not that I have to worry about PW, since she probably won’t come in, anyway, but FS might come to have a Matinee Day With Mom, and he helps himself to whatever he wants. Which is good.
I need to try and get filing done this week as well. That’s a job that seems never-ending. If I just wasn’t so lazy about doing it as soon as I produce something worthy of filing. Old habits die hard.
I need to get some things squared away with the science team account before the end of the calendar year. I won’t have to file the Form 990 with the IRS until the end of July, but I want everything tidy as of December 31, anyway.
I’ll get to do a 1099 for the young man we hired to teach public speaking. So official!
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