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.
Oh, Heaven forbid, Darks gets squeezed out of the opportunity!
Who knows? He may even want to do something nearly as famous as his stories of Anti-Claus. (Aunty Claws?)
There may be something there, after all...
Did Aunty Claws make it into Red One?
No, Aunty Claws, as far as I know, is waiting to be brought to life by someone *ahem-Darks* with imagination enough to do him/her justice.
That was spur-of-the-moment for me, and I don’t know what to do with it, besides give it to Darks to develop.
Indeed!
Get a fallen tree AND a free kitten!
SUCH a DEAL!
Little blighter’s lucky to have survived all the excitement. But what a cutie!
I’m idling, right now; waiting for the backup software to restore my whole user profile to my work computer. All 57GB of it.
Google “needed” to update Chrome, and it didn’t automatically sign me back in when it restarted. So when I went to sign in, it saw another profile on the same computer and offered, extremely unhelpfully, “Oh, look — another user profile! Is that you? ‘Cuz I can sign you in and sync all the stuff from that profile into this one...!”
The other option was to create a whole new user profile.
There was no, “Yes, that is me. Absolutely NO don’t sync anything from that profile. Just sign me in to my already existing profile” option.
It ended up making a THIRD profile, and in trying to swap to the one I needed, it deleted it, instead, and Chrome, when you delete a User Profile, isn’t Windows-compliant; it doesn’t send the profile folder to the Recycle Bin, it annihilates it totally.
So if you “Ooops!” there’s no recovery unless you have a backup, which — quite fortunately — I do. But that still means I’m idling instead of actively working, which creates a host of other problems I’ll need to deal with later.
Oh be joyful.
I’m happy it’s egg nog season, again. I’ve restocked my after-dinner coffee creamer with fresh egg nog liqueur from Costco.
The tree is up.
The lights are up.
The ornaments are hung.
The skirt is down.
The wreaths are on the front doors.
I’ve got vacation days lined up so I’ll be off for three whole weeks beginning Christmas Eve.
I ain’t doin’ NUTHIN’ I don’t absolutely have to.
I had to deal with The Driving Dead today, look over at the idiot next to me and I swear it was a zombie.
Mucus, fluids, spittle, “graaaah brains, waving one hand in time with shaking the steering wheel.
God I hate NY so much.
Good for you! We’re not having a new cat, even if tree falls down.
We have a wreath up. That’s about it.
Anoreth has a cat named Rocket. It’s a black cat.
We had that written out as “Snowball Fight”
But that was two machines and 3 hard drive crashes ago.
I’ll have to check if I have it in my OneDrive.
Back atcha, zz.
Ja.
Hoping things are going well for you in the frozen North.
Yours W00T!
Enjoy your holiday! Not even the computer gremlins can spoil it.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
From snowy and 30s yesterday to foggy and 40s today. What a wonderful world. We’ll see how much gets melted off for Christmas.
M-I-L has a new way to try to get her caregivers to let her get ready for bed early. Since they won’t let her go in to her bedroom before 6pm, she just starts taking clothes off where she is.
I think we’ve finished giving out the Christmas bonuses to the apartment complex staff and caregivers. Now on to us and our Christmas/Hanukkah celebration. Young ArGee is coming in on the 23rd. She says her cat is upset that she’s spending so much time away right now.
I might have gotten today’s Wordle in 4, but I got lazy and didn’t check to see if my fourth guess had already won. It had, so I had to go for a 5th try.
Wordle 1,277 5/6*
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Thought this word had an E in it... but tried that 4th anyway because nothing else seemed to fit...
Wordle 1,277 4/6
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Strikes and spares... the Dude abides.
Morning all!
That’s what I get for having a weird Monday in the works — an even weirder Tuesday, where I sleep in until 0700. It’s just a good thing I set my alarm for said hour.
I have things to do today, but I’m not in much of a mood to do them. The filing has to be whittled down to size and the clothes need to be put away. The former will take over an hour but the latter will take two minutes.
FS sent me a text last night (just as I was thinking of letting my eyelids slam shut!) and said he’s having a hard time regulating his blood sugar, so please don’t make the brownies I promised.
Before that, Linda sent a text, asking if I was asleep, (what was I supposed to answer, even if I was?) but I was in bed, reading, so could she come over with something for me. Turns out, it was her famous white chocolate coated popcorn, and she must have given me the bottom of the pot because there were lots of loose hulls in the mouthful I tried. She’d only been over three times yesterday, after a very long dry spell.
Although I didn’t mention it yesterday, the moon was gorgeous when I went to wash clothes yesterday morning. It was so bright I could hardly see any stars, and then I realized that clouds were covering some of the rest of the sky. But every time I go out early on Mondays, I’m always astounded by the vast beauty of the night sky and can’t help but utter a tiny “Thank you, Lord” for making it.
I was finally taken off the med that made me feel stupid and sluggish, and also the one that made my feet swell, so those two tortures were short-lived.
Now, wishing all of you a great day, I’m going to get dressed and see what I can accomplish.
Be back later!
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