Show us your Conkers
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Not that old chestnut again! 
ambuletz said:
beyond playing the game of conkers or using them as a display feature in a bowl... what exactly can you even do with tnem?
I think they are good for keeping spiders away, something I am much in favour of.Also explode impressively if thrown into the embers if a bonfire, ask me how I know
They used to be prized possessions years ago, and the poor trees were subjected to an annual assault with sticks to knock them off!
Anyone else think it’s such a shame that they just sit on the ground under the tree nowadays?
They are such beautiful things they have to be picked up, taken home and cherished. Not sure about their spider deterrence properties, but my wife believes it, so they get to stay
Anyone else think it’s such a shame that they just sit on the ground under the tree nowadays?
They are such beautiful things they have to be picked up, taken home and cherished. Not sure about their spider deterrence properties, but my wife believes it, so they get to stay
There’s a huge tree on a regular walk. I pick up a pocket full each time we pass.
The recent big wind yielded a huge bonanza hence my full basket.
No idea what to do with them but they seem too nice to leave on the ground to rot.
I have fond memories of walking home from school, stick in hand, collecting a few whoppers.
The recent big wind yielded a huge bonanza hence my full basket.
No idea what to do with them but they seem too nice to leave on the ground to rot.
I have fond memories of walking home from school, stick in hand, collecting a few whoppers.
Sadly, lots of trees are being wiped out.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk...
Article is a couple of years old, but I’ve noticed quite a few established trees withering away this year
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk...
Article is a couple of years old, but I’ve noticed quite a few established trees withering away this year
jet_noise said:
Berkshire bred said:
I think they are good for keeping spiders away, something I am much in favour of.
Also explode impressively if thrown into the embers if a bonfire, ask me how I know
Mrs Noise thinks the same (about spiders) so I fill a pocket (or two) also Also explode impressively if thrown into the embers if a bonfire, ask me how I know
Its like it was conditioned into us chaps as kids that Conkers are precious, to be harvested and jealously guarded.
A frantic couple of weeks, at the start of which you remembered all the best locations and kept an eye out for new ones, then spent ages collecting them off the floor which was a rare thing to find as so many kids were at it, then perhaps even climbing up but more often than not hoofing a suitable chunk of wood up to try and dislodge some, worth the risk of getting brained by it on the way down.
it was sort of the prelude to Halloween, and then the main event, bonfire night, it signified the end of summer, nights drawing in and time spent gouging holes through small shiny things from a tree, optionally your hand.
Then the actual game, it was great fun and properly combative, I usually went home happy covered in bits of conker.
I subscribe to the "If you did this you had an awesome childhood", implication its all s
t now, we had bad stuff as well, Jimmy Savile for example but do kids still go mad for conkers ? I tried getting my three into it, they had a go and avidly collected them but generally we ended up with a bag of mouldy conkers in the shoe cupboard, found some months later as the source of the terrible smell generally attributed to my shoes by the wife.
A frantic couple of weeks, at the start of which you remembered all the best locations and kept an eye out for new ones, then spent ages collecting them off the floor which was a rare thing to find as so many kids were at it, then perhaps even climbing up but more often than not hoofing a suitable chunk of wood up to try and dislodge some, worth the risk of getting brained by it on the way down.
it was sort of the prelude to Halloween, and then the main event, bonfire night, it signified the end of summer, nights drawing in and time spent gouging holes through small shiny things from a tree, optionally your hand.
Then the actual game, it was great fun and properly combative, I usually went home happy covered in bits of conker.
I subscribe to the "If you did this you had an awesome childhood", implication its all s
t now, we had bad stuff as well, Jimmy Savile for example but do kids still go mad for conkers ? I tried getting my three into it, they had a go and avidly collected them but generally we ended up with a bag of mouldy conkers in the shoe cupboard, found some months later as the source of the terrible smell generally attributed to my shoes by the wife. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff