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.
Yes, she’s doing fine. However, she didn’t have her head shaved in the Marines. Women have to have short hair when they get there or put their hair in a bun.
Well, now that wokeness is at an end. If Demi Moore can shave her head, anyone can.
It seems like it would be itchy. Maybe she means really short, like mine?
She said she’s bored, and the new semester at Oregon State doesn’t start until September 24.
I can remember being antsy for school to start.
I can also remember when I was finally at my first job after graduation feeling strange to not have homework.
Yesterday it told me that “NOMAS” was a valid word... sigh...
The other hiker may be in that bag...
Or under it.
Nice little life they’ve got there!
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
I can almost hear the kitteh’s saying, “We’re French! Why do you think we have these outrageous accents?”
Everything’s signed on the offer on the house so we’re just waiting for the mortgage to be finalized and whatever else is needed to set a closing date. We celebrate Tabernacles, which is October 6 - 13 this year. That may complicate setting a moving date. But we’ll see.
I stared at the clues from the first two Wordle guesses a long time before the solution jumped out at me. It was a lot better than yesterday.
Wordle 1,517 3/6
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Congratulations! Sally has found a Honda Accord for me in Salisbury, which is an hour away. I put a deposit on it, and we’ll go up there on Monday. It’s a 2025. I wanted a 2024 or ‘23, but there weren’t a lot of options, and the price difference was modest, especially since I plan to drive it until she takes my keys away.
Once I have it in the driveway, I’ll sell the van to Guadalupe at church. He has a construction business, and he’s been nagging me about it for a couple of years.
Wow. I’d check out that site if we weren’t down to just two kitties now.
Maybe I’ll get a castle for several cats when I’m done doing other stuff in my life.
That all sounds wonderful. The Accord is a nice car.
We have a 2018 Pilot because Mrs. ArGee likes large “family” vehicles. I’m still a Ford person, but it’s nice.
After driving a bus for 25 years, I want a sedan. If other people like SUVs/hatchbacks, that’s fine for them.
Toyota has a new model called a Crown, which is bigger than the Accord, but it’s only been out for a couple of years, so I wouldn’t feel confident buying it.
When I test drove the Accord last week, the salesman, who was 6’4”, sat in the passenger seat, and Frank sat behind him and wasn’t crowded. It was impressively spacious.
This complex has Accords (and Camrys) everywhere.
We moved to big vehicles when we were in Texas. Sitting in a small car at a light with trucks and Suburbans to the left, right, back, back left, and back right makes one feel very exposed.
Wow! Incredible castle... they are some lucky cats...
Good Morning!
Same same here... same on the weather front as well...
So so Wordle today, took me a while to get there...
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