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.
Can you use some sprinklers to get most of that covered?
My neighbor has loaned us a bunch of sprinklers. Our limiting factor is faucets outside. We only have 2. The neighbor also loaned us 2 splitters so we could connect 4 hoses at once, but the pressure from the township isn’t that high so we’d wind up almost doubling the zones. No win there.
We could probably do a lot with one of those old-fashioned flat hoses that creates the shower? A stretch of that stuff on the north side of the house could turn 3 zones into 1. But I haven’t seen that in stores for a while and don’t really know what to search under. I used to call it a “soaker” but that turns up something completely different.
Happy Wednesday...
Whatever happened to the camel anyone? Did Mike ever guess what day it is?
Left-handed hook again but the ball stayed on the fairway. Took a cart path hop on me which worked in my favor with a few extra yards. Stuck with the 1 wood driver to absolutely crush the dogleg left putting me within bad breath distance of the green. Popped it up with a wedge and it took a nearly perfect bounce and roll to drop into the cup.
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.... and yes... the curry yesterday turned out pretty good. I use a dry mix of spices to get the masala right and a ghee to fry up the chicken. Added some fresh graded ginger this time, just for the chicken, and it was quite pleasant.
Yes, I do remember those flat hoses with the holes... and I haven’t seen any for quite some time... I think the current day “soakers” are those black rubber hoses that allow the water to just seep out slowly... great for trees and shrubs...
So I found out they’re called sprinkler hoses. I can order one from Amazon that looks like it will do very well. That should make life much easier when it arrives.
Dang, that dish sounds good! 😋
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I’m actually a little hurt that so many of my family and friends are so surprised at how good of a chef I am.
Sounds like you may have to invite them over more often so that they have no doubt!
Ew... people... In my den? My sanctum?
I’m going to have to think about this for a while...
Good. Bad... I’m the guy with the TV remote... /Ash
It’s Intern Season out at The Lab, and we’ve all these young people getting a firsthand look at Research Life. Love talking with them about their plans; they’ve got a lotta enthusiasm. Great to be able to be a voice of encouragement that there’s still a big wide world ahead of them and they really can grab the brass ring if they apply themselves.
I did some applying of my own out here on the links today, and got a rare Eagle for my efforts.
16 is built like a drag strip and I treated it like one, launching hard out of the hole and going for pure distance. Taking the advice of the course description, I shot for the bunker right of the slight left dogleg, and earned a lie a little ways short of it, but with a good line toward the pin. With distance to go and little to lose I pulled a wood for my second stroke and gunned it toward the gap just to the right of the trees obscuring the green. Achieving most of my goal, but still not quite abreast of the first rank of trees on the left, I gambled on a 7 iron to get the right combination of loft and distance, looking to get on the green, and set up a Birdie put. Imagine my joy, then, as I got the sweet spot squarely on the ball, which not only went the whole way to the green, but dropped on, made a little bounce, and rolled straight to the cup as if drawn by magnetism.
An Eagle is a beautiful thing. I’d need two more to redeem my scorecard for this round, but I’ll take my 71 and head to 17.
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Seems very fun! I went to the office supply store yesterday. The only thing on clearance that I needed was construction paper.
Huxley? Poor kid.
👍 on the eagle!
Yeah, more people need to listen to Cash’s “Boy Named Sue” and THINK about what a name will mean once he/she is no longer a toddler.
I mean they can’t even call him “Hux”!!!
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
Almost a yin-yang kitteh pic. Almost.
I have apparently been watering the grass wrong. I’m not supposed to let the water touch the new plants because Mrs. ArGee is watering those and she’s terrified we’ll over-water them. Neither of us has a very green thumb. Ah, well. I’ll have to figure out how to fit more and smaller zones into my schedule.
As we wind up our round of Wordolf I let all the visual noise on this 17th hold get the better of me. My drive just made it past the golf track in that small patch of fairway. My next drive just put me in the middle-ish of the long patch of fairway before the green. My third had a fortunate roll onto the green to leave me about 3 feet from the hole where my putt sunk for a par.
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Sounds like you enjoy having people over as much as I do... 😂
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