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!
We made it through Thanksgiving. Mrs. ArGee’s idea of a holiday involved moving furniture, but we also had a nice dinner. Everything was going well until we discovered a drip from the electrical input to the garbage disposal (groan!).
We were going to be looking at a new sink anyway, so now we have a timetable.
Yesterday’s Wordle went better than today’s. Here are both scores.
Wordle 1,622 3/6
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Wordle 1,623 4/6
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Good Friday Morning!
Well, we made it through as well... you would think that at our ages we would know better than to overeat like that... sigh...
Same results on the Wordle front...
Wordle 1,623 4/6*
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I don’t think I shared this. On Wednesday, after the electrician corrected one mistake in my wiring the light bulbs still wouldn’t light. About 30 troubleshooting minutes later we found that a 3-way switch had physically broken. At least he didn’t charge an arm and a leg. And we had a well-lit kitchen for Thanksgiving.
A physically broken switch. Who would have guessed?
Glad that it all worked out and he didn’t sock you with a big bill! I’ve seen a couple broken switches over the years... some companies make some real shoddy products... something to keep an eye open for now that you know that one has stopped functioning... obviously the more frequently used switches are the most prone to breaking...
Oddly, I didn’t even remember this fixture had more than one switch. Mrs. ArGee spoke up and said, “There’s one in the dining room.” We actually found a 3rd while probing.
Must have been setup so that you can control that light coming in from all directions!
Not enough snow yet.
Maybe by Monday.
Happy Leftovers Day!
I made potato cakes for breakfast.
I think one of the switches was more of a “because we can” switch, but otherwise that’s correct.
Sounds like a nice breakfast.
I had oatmeal. (Said with the tone of voice of Charlie Brown saying, “I got a rock.”)
Maybe some dried fruit and nuts?
I snack on dried fruit throughout the day. I put maple syrup in my oatmeal.
It’s not that anyone begrudges me different food. I’m just to lazy to prepare anything but oatmeal or cereal w/milk in the morning. I don’t even bother with the toaster-oven, although if we had a pop-up toaster I might have something toasted.
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