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.
Best wishes for a good holiday with your folks!
Awwww...!
I hope you all enjoy the day and have a Merry Christmas!
Hoping that you all have a Blessed Christmas!
Back to Par on the Wordle front...
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Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah to all you all!
Yes, ✡ Happy Hanukkah ✡ to all that are celebrating!
Wishing y’all a very Merry Christmas and a New Year of abundant blessings!
Merry Christmas to all the Undneaders on FR! I hope the last 24 hours have been memorable!
I’m finally home!
It was a memorable Christmas Eve, but no photos to prove it, so I can’t show them off.
I was up at my usual time, as I had slept on the floor in the study, and it was three hours before anyone else began to stir. I could either stand or I could sit, but if I sat, it was either on a hard wooden chair or on a sofa so close the floor that I had trouble getting out of it. I tried to be kind about it, but I finally decided I’d had enough and could we just bring me home, please?
I’ve cat-proofed the furniture, but Miss I’m-So-Super-Allergic-To-Cats almost tripped over a bag of cat litter before she asked the question, “Do you have a cat?” when she realized she wasn’t sneezing.
And my FS who is also “allergic” said, “Chip doesn’t bother me.” Hmmm...
Anyway, I hope you all had a good Christmas Eve!
I’m glad you made it home safely. I wish you’d had a cushion!
I did! But I left it on the bed, here! I wasn’t about to have him turn around to come and get it, as I didn’t want any of the sighs and looks that he gives to PW when she ticks him off!
Roy did most of the cooking and the food was delicious! Sam, her boy was there, which I didn’t know until we were almost there, but he’s been suffering from a kidney disease, so I seldom saw him.
We talked about Carol for a bit, and it was good for Roy and the PW to get some of the grief out. I didn’t mind it at all.
I missed my FRiends, but I think I’ll have to get used to seeing all the Other Folks at Christmas because FS said, “None of us know how long we’re going to be here!” I think my age had something to do with that!
So there were some good points, at least.
I tried to make it so, and hope I succeeded, because PW was pretty decent to me the entire time. I let her steal the show while I tried to shut up and sit down whenever it looked like her mouth was going to move. So it was, for the most part, an excellent Christmas.
My eldest grandson and my only remaining stepson wished me a Merry Christmas, as well as my FD and a few friends, but they all did it in clusters! Sounded like my phone had allergies! (My notification sound is a sneeze!)
Chip finally ate a little food while I was gone, and didn’t seem to care that I was home, so status quo!
And it’s time for me to do something akin to a meltdown and get ready to head down the hall. See you in the morning! Though it may be a little later than usual, because I’m not going to set the alarm.
MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!
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Merry Christmas, HK. All our guests have gone home, and it’s my bedtime.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve! Merry 2nd Day of Christmas!
We got through the day with M-I-L. She’s really not able (or willing maybe) to be social. She clearly enjoyed her lunch, although she didn’t say so because she didn’t say much of anything. Mrs. ArGee got surprised she was so emotional that this we the first Christmas without her father.
When we got home we opened our gifts to each other, ate our Christmas leftovers, and lit our Menorah (which is called a Hanukkia in Israel because they actually light the correct Menorah at other occasions). In the end, it was a good Christmas.
One of our caregivers daughters had her baby so we had a last minute scramble to fill her overnight slot but we did, and M-I-L slept well.
And now back to life. Mrs. ArGee wants me to return some things Saturday. I’ll have to check my armor before I venture to the store.
I got a 5/6 in yesterday’s Wordle. Today was back to par for me, but from the opposite direction as Z.
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