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.
That’s a pretty Siamese. My experience has been 50/50 as to the temperament of the breed; I think they may well have been rightly portrayed in Disney’s original “Lady And The Tramp,” but there’s a young one that lives around the corner from me that’s very sweet. Also, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with a Himalayan, a long-hair of the same colors and patterning as the Siamese, and she was a complete sweetheart.
Gloomy skies, today, following a gorgeous weekend with lots of sun and highs well up into the 70s. It was that warmer sort of Spring weather where one has that first-of-the-year experience getting into one’s car and discovering it’s HOT inside; a harbinger of hot car days to come.
Peering through the ranks of shrouding trees from the tee on 14 one can just make out the pin over in the next county.
Leading off, I dared the distant tree on the left, angling for the thread of fairway between it and the trio of sand traps on the right. I needn’t have worried about the sand, though, as the sheer distance ensured that my ball came to rest in the middle of the fairway short of even the nearest of the bunkers.
Needing distance, now, I pulled a fairway wood and risked overtopping the ball, putting extra muscle into a drive for the pin, hoping to for a lie within a high iron shot of the putting surface.
Skimming the grass cleanly, the stroke got excellent carriage and, although the landing came dangerously close to the lip of the sand trap on the right, I put the ball just 3-4 feet off the green; so close, in fact, I succumbed to the temptation to take my third stroke with my putter.
Putting on from out in the fringe, the shot wasn’t long, less than 15 feet, but the ball hopped awkwardly in the longer grass as it came off the club face and rolled about a foot wide to the left of the flag. Having covered so much distance so well, though, I can’t cry about the need for a fourth stroke to hole in for the Birdie.
The long par 5 14th proves not too long, and I pick up a stroke to move to the 15th tee at a 2 under par 54.
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Nice Birdie!
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Good news!
Hole 14 (Wordle # 1388) is a Par 5 hole... so you sunk it for Par...
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Nice Birdie!
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For those not keeping score at home, ArGee and HKMk are tied at 2 under, DC is at Par, and zz is 1 over, as we head to 15...
Ah. My browser had relaunched for an update and my view went back to the front 9, not the back 9. So I feel a little better.
I hope those two houses right next to the green on the left there have good insurance for replacing windows. That’s all I gotta say.
We had Siamese when I was growing up. I don’t think their personalities were that much different from our “please take this cat” cats later in my life, but they were So Loud.
Church meetings today. Tomorrow is science team. Then back to church meetings. Unnngh.
“Blame it on your browser” is a fairly new thing in golf.
Good morning. Happy Twosday!
My M-I-L passed away in her sleep tonight. We got a call a little after 1am. The caregiver thinks she probably died between 12:30 and 1. We’re at the house now waiting for the Hospice nurse.
With nothing better to do I went out to the course. Maybe I should do more Wordolfing in my sleep. My first drive managed to get even withe the dog leg toward the green. My second drive managed to not only get me to the green but it rolled into the cup for 2 under. I didn’t even put any nearby windows at risk.
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I’m very sorry about your loss. And, you know, everything.
Got my sleep study results. Apnea 40+ times per hour...
Whoa! That’s like almost every minute!
Thank you, T-C.
We’re now moving to Act III of this part of our Story. Once the funeral is taken care of, Mrs. ArGee is the executor of the estate so we’ll be here a while longer taking care of that.
B-I-L is coming in late tonight to help with “stuff”.
Yes.
Oddly, her next-oldest daughter texted, “Poor Mom.” What’s so poor for Mom? She died peacefully in her sleep. She’s no longer weak, mentally challenged, and in pain. There’s no “poor” for her at all.
It seemed kind of strange.
I’m sorry to hear that, Nully.
I hear there are some much better solutions for that than the clunky CPAP machines. Hopefully one will work for you.
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