I will have to mount my Jolly Roger on the tractor for today!
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 morning. Happy Friday!
Have fun camping. It’s one of the things I missed once my son decided to stop with the Scouts after earning his Eagle. Nobody else in the family ever wanted to go.
It was a bit warmer today than yesterday but the guessed high isn’t as high as yesterday. That probably means a cloudy day.
We still don’t have a closing date. Tick, tick, tick.
I’m back to 5 on Wordle.
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Sounds like a tough way to do things...
Enjoy the trip!
Good Friday Morning!
Another week that has raced right by...
It appears that they really wanted me to have this one quickly...
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Happy Friday.
Going fabric shopping with my Mom tomorrow. Trying to put together a 1700’s style frock coat.
On that not, this day do be the day to Talk Like a Pirate! YAR!!!! Hoist the colors and let fly the long 9’s! Pillage today like the ‘morrow may never come! Avast!
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I will have to mount my Jolly Roger on the tractor for today!
I have a small one mounted on a small fiberglass mast that I move around from time to time...
Avast!
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I have a leather eye patch. I had some leftover “skull bling” and the patch is sporting a good sized skull on it...
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Two worn together...
Good luck with the frock coat. I hope you don’t end up with a frock ;-).
Arrrr!
LOL... Yeah... Definitely going more for the pirate look than a house coat...
They had one at the MN Ren Faire that was gorgeous... but not in my size. It was a vanilla and green paisely brocade with a dark green collar and cuffs. 3-4 different types of gold and green trimming...
So, taking Mom out to lunch tomorrow and hitting up the local textile surplus warehouse... Should be fun either way. Mom used to make most of our Halloween costumes and even some of our clothes growing up...
A: A labracadabrador. ←highlight to read...
Good morning. Happy Monday!
It was a nice, cool day yesterday. It was a good day to work on the estate lawn. I was hoping to run the walk-behind mower out of gas since we’re taking that as part of our inheritance. I guess I’ll have to drain the tank into the riding mower since we’re leaving that. I still need to figure out how to drain the oil for moving.
We got a PODS quote this weekend. Not only are those guys expensive, but now I’m getting all sorts of emails from businesses to help me pack. I already know who I’m going to use, thanks.
I had the Wordle in 3 today, except I didn’t.
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Good Monday Morning!
I hope that everyone had an enjoyable weekend... the warmer temps have stuck around a bit longer than expected, looks like Wednesday is a transition day with some rain possible as well... we will see...
When the row 2 guess wasn’t it, it had to be the one on row 3, by elimination...
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When you run out of vowels almost immediately..
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Weird start to the week. Happy First Day of Fall though...
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