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.
I always hated all the different tax forms. I’m glad I don’t have to file any more. It’s about the only good thing about being below the poverty level.
For a period of several years, while I was married to Igor, we had to hire a CPA. My tax knowledge was a little more than basic, but not enough to handle that kind of income.
And then I ran a business and found I knew next to nothing about taxes. So I’m glad I’m no longer doing that!
I’ll have to go take a class if it gets too complicated, but we’re not there yet.
I took quite a few classes over the years, but some things were still out of my depth.
My eyes feel like two burn-holes in a blanket, for some reason. I need to put my jacket on and go mail this letter to Charlie, but I sure don’t feel like it. I didn’t feel like writing to him, either, but I did. *yawn*
I also have to take my pills and have Second Breakfast. Time flies.
My feet were swelling from one BP med, so the doc took me off of it. I tried to get the cardiologist to take me off this drug that was supposed to give me energy, but seems to have the opposite effect, but she’s out of the office until Monday, so could I please email her back? It seems she’s out of the office more than she’s in.
I am currently reassembling the Lego Nativity that the Other Folks gave me for Christmas when I was still in Henderson. That must have been about 10 years ago or more. I will NOT take it apart! It will sit on a TV tray for display in front of one of the bookcases until such time as I can sell the sofa and either get a loveseat or two recliners to give me more room.
Now, for lunch!
Good plan. I was going to rake some leaves, but an issue developed with DP’s car, requiring a trip to the mechanic. The I took a nap. Maybe I’ll rake tomorrow!
35° this morning.
Then it started snowing.
It’s still snowing.
It’s not snowing here.
Naps are always good, before but even after, raking leaves. The latter sounds much better!
I’ve made quite a bit of progress on the Nativity but began to feel the fatigue set in, so I quit and covered it up. FD had never seen it, and she thought it was a great idea. It is! The owner of the project has changed a few things since he first came up with the idea, but he seems to be making money hand over fist, and in doing so, has a lot of young fans. More power to him!
Some of the progress I’ve made was because not all of the pieces were separated to start with, but in thinking, long ago, that I would save time in the reassembly, so much time has passed that all it did was confuse me. Still, I managed. Maybe I’ll get it finished tomorrow.
Wait. I can’t. I need to get the Christmas cards out tomorrow! YIKES!
It’s not snowing here, either, but it’s looked like it was going to for the last couple of days.
Drosophila melanogaster How fateful is thy mission Thow bringeth life variety not wrought by simple fission From they remote antinquity Thou bringeth life variety Drosophila melanogaster, how fateful is thy mission. Please excuse: have forgotten how to format and am too lazy to look it up. Bad FReeper!
Hey, n2i! Please see preceding ode to fruitflies!
For some reason, that reminds me of a character named “Gyro Gearloose”. Do you recall that character? ( I went to a Loggins and Messina concert back in the day. The first and last concert I ever attended.) It was a delightful concert. However, there were some complicating issues.
Very lively!
Nor here, it stopped about 10 minutes after I mentioned it.
About 4½ to 5” remaining.
Let’s try it with absolutely no HTML:
Freshman year in HS: General Science teacher re: fruit fly used to demonstrate genetics:
Drosophila melanogaster how fateful is thy mission
Thou bringeth life variety not wrought by simple fission
From thy remote antiquity
Thou bringeth life variety
Drosophila melanogaster, how fateful is thy mission.
Please excuse: have forgotten how to format and am too lazy to look it up. Bad FReeper!
LOL. I too remember the science HS presentation regarding the life and times of the fruit fly and the study thereof by science of the fruit flies in their short life span and procreation. One of the few times in HS, my teacher may have been attempting to create a thought in my brain full of mush. I believe I may have missed that moment of meaningfully grasping a thought from the HS science teacher. Still unsure as to what the teacher was attempting to teach with the fruit fly …… if it procreation ……. I succeeded.
The live cat issuing that thought is an expert ……LOL
I and the worms miss warm weather …..
If I could wrap my tongue around those words, I could probably work out the music. No thanks! I don’t want to ruin the message for future generations!
Funny Girl, SG!!
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