At 9.30am I heard a knock at the door and it was the Police ( not the Sting,Andy & Stewart variety though ).....I had to get out quickly because workmen had unearthed what was thought to be an unexploded war time bomb during work on a near by building site.
A long with all the other people in a half mile area around the site,I was evacuated up the road to a police cordon where traffic in the area were be re-directed.
There were police swarming everywhere, getting everyone away from the area. After a couple of hours had passed with no tell tale sound of an explosion I was getting bored and decided to meet up (mobiles are a wonderful thing) with Kate and daughter at a church hall that had been opened to especially to house people who were bored with standing about on street corners.
So wined and dined with tea,coffee and choccie biscuits ,we waited it out (along with the workmen who had found the bomb incidentally) until finally, at 1pm, we were told that the bomb had been x-rayed and it was considered safe.
Well,it would be wouldn't it as it turned out to be a piece of pipe.
Oh well, four hours after I'd been ooriginally evacuated, I was back at Kate's finishing off the wardrobe.
A bit of excitement then which was all over the local radio at the time and was briefly mentioned on the local news last night.
A tv film crew were in the area but I never saw them.
Pity really,had I been interviewed I would have got a plug in for Stina.
