liar, liar pants are on fire!!

Was mid- "this is a very important music department planning for 2005 day" - meeting on Wednesday when... mid sentence of the mid-meeting I was sharply interrupted by the penetrating whine of the fire alarm. Perhaps it wouldn't have been so startling had it not been raining. And yes - the assembly point was the outdoor field.

1 fire engine. 6 dazzlingly coloured civil defence hard hats. 100 teachers under the bus shelters. 1500 young women in their $1,000.00 a piece school uniforms. Very few umbrellas.