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 Midweek Morning!
We may get some needed rain on Saturday... we’ll see... 🤞🏻
At least it was pretty symmetrical...
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I had to look it up... Ligustrum seems to be nice looking... how have they sparked your anger?
I know how you feel. The late F-I-L had some tall shrubs in his back yard that had become rather overrun with kudzu. It was a joy to uproot and tear those vines out.
Wednesday...
Hmm.... Not much else to say here...
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Well, I’ll say it: a 3 is better than anything other than a 2 or a 1...
It’s interesting how often Mrs. ArGee will just say things, not newsy but just things, and then get upset because I never have anything to talk about.
I guess I talk about events, and she talks to process life.
I guess we may be the opposite here... Mrs. zz is far more focused on what goes on in the outside world... I tend to be focused on what is happening in our immediate vicinity...
I some some more bike parts coming in today... and a replacement part for my truck... Weather is warming up...
We’re closer to figuring out a particle for gravity... maybe...
I made a slow cooked brisket (2lbs flat cut) that turned out really good...
You understand, at last.
Women talk to process things.
Further gatherings most men figure out through painful experience...
A woman mentioning a problem does not imply her intent that you solve it.
“It’s fine,” is NEVER fine. “Ya done screwed up, A-Ron!”
If you’re putting a date on the calendar, YOU decide where you’re going; don’t ask her. She wants you to LEAD.
I’ve been learning to make ice cream. They have new versions that keep everything neat and clean for the kitchen. The actual mixer portion has a liquid in it that stays very cold for long enough to thicken the mixture. You have to freeze that solid before you can start.
The vanilla and chocolate come out well. It’s time to start experimenting with other options.
And the goal of a conversation is not for her to understand what I think. It’s for her to hear what she thinks come out of my mouth.
I have an ice cream maker that has both a hand-crank and an electric motor...
I did a natural vanilla-bean with crushed up Heath bars in it once that the kids devoured in some kind of record time. Pretty sure one or more of them got frost headaches from it.
Dang it... now I want ice cream.
They’re invasive. House builders plant them because they’re cheap and hardy, and they get gigantic. They’re poisonous to horses. If you want one in Australia, you call Plant Control and they kill it with fire.
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Honestly.
I could not roll my eyes any harder if they were bowling balls and I were Fred Flintstone.
Note: Kitteh service will be suspended Friday - Sunday. We’re going out of town!
Have a good trip! Maybe I’ll grab a couple of pics and post — if I remember.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Where has this week gone?
At least we got the cars registered locally. Now I have to surrender the old plates. Hopefully there will be no snags with that process so I can stop double-paying for insurance.
I’m surprised those beds aren’t made to look like cat food.
Not much to share about Wordle today.
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Enjoy your time away. Hopefully you’ll be someplace warm.
May the “best fun ever” be everyone’s.
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