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.
Young ArGee’s cat is spending the weekend with the emergency clinic. An ultrasound showed hardening of her small intestine, thinking it’s related to IBD. They’re going to try to get some weight on the cat before sending her home where she will shortly be put on a prescription diet for IBD.
Young ArGee decided not to test for cancer as she would not put the cat through chemo if it were found, so this is the treatment.
In the meantime, trying to get the cat into the carrier last night resulted in multiple lacerations to Young ArGee’s arms and hands. She had to go to Urgent Care herself today because her thumb was swelling. She’s on an antibiotic and hoping her thumb will return to somewhat normal size before the cat comes home.
What an end to a week!
I’m so sorry for young ArGee and her cat. Tom is getting a kitten, which means Patrick is also getting a kitten, since they live together. A friend of my son-in-law has kittens to place.
We’ll see how it goes. I assume it will arrive next week, since he hasn’t said they got it already. It’s free and comes with stuff, but they’ll have to get it fixed and vaccinated, I think.
Kitty looks like our Noodles. (RIP.)
Hopefully they both will recover over the weekend!
Of course that is normal for cats.
We will be on the road the next two weeks as we make the yearly pilgrimage to see the family. We have to add Illinois to the roster as one of them has moved. So Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and loop back up to Michigan.
I do NOT think this counts as a vacation.
Good luck. I hope you find some pleasant surprises along the way.
We (husband, me, Kathleen) are going to Myrtle Beach this weekend. It was planned a couple of months ago, and then on Friday, my husband said, “I’m thinking we should spend a few hours with my brother while we’re there.”
“That’s fine. You do that,” I said. “Kathleen and I will find ourselves something to do.”
When he recovered from the surprise, he decided that he actually wouldn’t go see his brother. *sigh* For almost 40 years, I’ve been telling him that any time he wants to see any of his family members, all he has to do is plan his trip and put it on the calendar. It’s not going to involve me.
I think you’re right. I think this counts as a “road trip” but not as a “vacation.” But HR won’t see it that way.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
Chaos is a good choice, as it’s likely to happen and you can claim success.
It was only 60 fs when I walked The Princess this morning. That’s a nice change. We had a decent rainfall on Saturday with no accompanying power outages.
I got the garage semi-organized yesterday. I have some 2x4s to mount into which I will drive nails for hanging stuff. It’s not as fancy as all those garage organizer thingies, but it works well enough for me.
I had an OK start to the Wordle week.
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Good Monday Morning!
They are guessing that we will have our warmest temps of the season over the next few days... at least it looks to be drying out fairly well... hoping that TD 2 (soon to become TS Bertha) stays down by the Gulf on its journey this week...
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An OK Wordle start for me as well...
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Good morning. I have a long list of Things today, but I’m making progress.
Progress is good... makes the long list shorter!
Oh dear.
Youngest Daughter is worried because we have left Lily the Dog and Pat the Puppy in the care of the grandparents.
I have assured her they will be fine.
I hope I am telling the truth.
Is it progress to add things to the list or remove them? ;)
Dogs are very resiliant.
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