Hope you have your safety goggles, gloves and hi-viz tabard ready
Yay now you can make conker wine tastes lovely ( poisonous) died twice ( thank you nhs)
Let’s hope none of the other kids wanted any eh
I hope you got those by climbing up the tree and jumping up and down on a branch.
It’s a rite of passage
Apparently they make really good Laundry Detergent!
I remember when I was younger and my uncle took us to this random duel carriageway road that had a line of conker trees running along the middle.
Filled like 3 shopping bags full of them. lol
OP – pickle or roast for the win?
My elderly neighbour, in his 70s, collects a load of conkers every year, strings them up and takes them to the pub where he and his old mates have a conker competition. Made me smile when he told me that.
What was the winning strategy to cheat and harden conkers? We tested lots of methods, and if I recall correctly, no one method shone. But we are likely sloppy with our control of the variables.
Airing cupboard for the year
A layer of varnish
Slow bake in the oven
Leave out in the fading sun
Criminal that the kids these days aren’t interested, isn’t it
We’d have killed for a haul like that in the 80s. We fought for hours for many fewer than that.
God forbid other kids want any
Veni, vidi, vici
one conker to rule them all
Horse chestnut trees
Do you see 39 or 24?
Ah yes, we have sadly outgrown the stage of bringing home bags and bags of conkers and then a few weeks (sometimes months 😬) later throwing out bags of mouldy, smelly conkers.
My parents have a conker tree in the back garden. My oldest brother planted it when he was 10. I was 4, and by the time I was 10, it was big enough to shower conkers across the garden
This reminds me of an episode of William’s Wish Wellingtons called “William the Conker-er” in which William has to defeat the school bully in a conker tournament!
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Spiders will fear you
Hope you have your safety goggles, gloves and hi-viz tabard ready
Yay now you can make conker wine tastes lovely ( poisonous) died twice ( thank you nhs)
Let’s hope none of the other kids wanted any eh
I hope you got those by climbing up the tree and jumping up and down on a branch.
It’s a rite of passage
Apparently they make really good Laundry Detergent!
I remember when I was younger and my uncle took us to this random duel carriageway road that had a line of conker trees running along the middle.
Filled like 3 shopping bags full of them. lol
OP – pickle or roast for the win?
My elderly neighbour, in his 70s, collects a load of conkers every year, strings them up and takes them to the pub where he and his old mates have a conker competition. Made me smile when he told me that.
What was the winning strategy to cheat and harden conkers? We tested lots of methods, and if I recall correctly, no one method shone. But we are likely sloppy with our control of the variables.
Airing cupboard for the year
A layer of varnish
Slow bake in the oven
Leave out in the fading sun
Criminal that the kids these days aren’t interested, isn’t it
We’d have killed for a haul like that in the 80s. We fought for hours for many fewer than that.
God forbid other kids want any
Veni, vidi, vici
one conker to rule them all
Horse chestnut trees
Do you see 39 or 24?
Ah yes, we have sadly outgrown the stage of bringing home bags and bags of conkers and then a few weeks (sometimes months 😬) later throwing out bags of mouldy, smelly conkers.
My parents have a conker tree in the back garden. My oldest brother planted it when he was 10. I was 4, and by the time I was 10, it was big enough to shower conkers across the garden
This reminds me of an episode of William’s Wish Wellingtons called “William the Conker-er” in which William has to defeat the school bully in a conker tournament!