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 usually don’t have dreams that I remember, but when I do they are usually pretty strange...
That is it, Wordle Cricket! We shall wait for you to set out the parameters....
Thanks. I usually know if one’s about to come up and I can decide whether I’ve used my share recently. But this one snuck up on me.
I’ll invent Wordle Cricket when I get a chance.
One thing I have heard from my Indian friends, is that true cricket can go on a long, long time. So we can play one game for a while.
The funny thing is that we get exposed to a lot of cricket matches because we are big BritBox fans... 95% of the TV we watch in the evenings are British detective shows...
But after all these years, we still don’t understand what they are doing.... 🙃
There is a pair of Mocking birds that have settled in the Holly for several years. Territorial as heck . Our cats steer clear of them.
We’ve had that, too. They would get right up in the cats’ faces and shriek at them.
Ok, here’s draft 1:
1 guess - Hit past the boundary - 6 runs
2 guesses - Hits the boundary - 4 runs
3 guesses - Hit and 3 runs scored
4 guesses - Hit and 2 run scored
5 guesses - Hit and 1 run scored
6 guesses - Out
Each day will be an over. normally 6 overs constitute an inning. Since we don’t have 2 teams, we can count Monday - Saturday and then tally our scores. Play the same the next week for as long as we want.
All this from watching a 2 minute video. I’m sure there’s a lot of nuance I don’t have, but I think this will work.
Makes sense to me! Start on this coming Monday?
Fine with me. What do the others think?
Good morning. Happy Friday!
The rain yesterday brought cooling temps today. It was 30 fs when I walked The Princess. I guess we’ll get spring after all.
I didn’t exactly show myself ready to start Wordle Cricket today.
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It was 33 when I got up this morning. There’s still frost on the neighbor’s roof in the shade.
Good Friday Morning!
We’ve had a couple of chilly overnights (low 40s), a bit warmer tonight, then a few chillier ones (low-mid 30s)... been sunny with low humidity in the daytime, so who can complain?
Stumbled and bumbled along...
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Interesting place for a cat to explore...
It looks like a purpose-built cat gym on a “catio.”
Oh, I can see that now... at first I thought it was an industrial waterfront...
Waiting for them to weigh in...
I fell down an AI rabbit hole on cat videos recently. Cats being snipers, playing instruments in the middle of the night, NASCAR drivers... It was not a productive work day.
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Were you generating them or watching them?
Or both?
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