It was a rare weekend, I had agreed to do some digging in my parents garden to put up two arches.  Some of you will know my dad - Derek Overton from various SBSC events.  They live just over the way from a piece of MOD land that used to be used for all sorts of things and bangs were not unusual.  Anyway, we were drilling into the ground when we hit something that should not be there - it was tubular and metallic. 

Having joked a bit that "who knows what it could be when around here" Dad decided to call the police.  They arrived, examined it, decided since one of them used to be in the army that it could be dangerous, so calls were made to the bomb squad.  The bomb squad said it sounded potentially hazardous, so came for a visit :-)

The neighbours were obviously quite interested when we had 2, then 3 police cars out the front of the house and finally the bomb squad van and army folk.

Finally, several hours after the 1st phone call the object was declared safe and that it had not ever have been a threat, but was shaped very similarly to some known ordinance, hence the concern.

Right, back to work and life.

David