Conkers

[PeterCarole29]

Is it still a thing
I couldn’t help myself and picked up several handfulls and been reminiscing

 

[Pukka]

Yup Sunday's job with the daughter why out walking.

Conker fight in the afternoon.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

But there's no holes drilled through them yet.

 

[AlunandFelicie]

Health and safety will be down on you like a ton of bricks!
Oops sorry
Health and safety will be down on you ,with a stern reminder of the hazards of that particular pastime

 

[Emmit]

We've been collecting them in France for Damelza.
She puts them in the corner of the rooms at home to ward off spiders.

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[G-RMPS]

When we moved to Switzerland years ago my son found a conker tree on the first day and collected a huge bag of conkers. He was so excited. Went to school and no one was the slightest bit interested. What a disappointment for him

 

[AlunandFelicie]

We've been collecting them in France for Damelza.
She puts them in the corner of the rooms at home to ward off spiders.

Do they hunt spiders???

 

[Emmit]

I don't know.
With a great big boulder in the corner (at least thats how the spider would view it) there's no corner to hide in!

 

[AlunandFelicie]

I think your missis is having you on ,does she giggle when she’s placing them

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

I don't know.
With a great big boulder in the corner (at least thats how the spider would view it) there's no corner to hide in!

We tried them in our house but they didn't scare the spiders off unless you threw the conkers at them

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[Puddleduck]

I just love looking at them, such a beautiful colour..... conkers and spiders!

 

[PP Bear]

Used to love playing conkers at school. My 15 takes your 10, so mines now a 25, wonderful days.

 

[tribalbrit]

Not allowed to play at school anymore... too dangerous, apparently.

 

[Onemanandhisdog]

Yep, they are just left laying in the roads or on the pavements, kids can't play at school so the 'market' has gone!

 

[LostInSpace]

Do they hunt spiders???

Probanly not. But, I am told, spiders do not like the smell.

Is that fresh off the tree, or when cooked.

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[AlunandFelicie]

Probanly not. But, I am told, spiders do not like the smell.

Is that fresh off the tree, or when cooked.

Spiders ,when cooked are not bothered by any smells

 

[Pukka]

Not allowed to play at school anymore... too dangerous, apparently.

That's not true. H&S says it ok

 

[AlunandFelicie]

That's not true. H&S says it ok

It’s the hard hat ,riggers gloves and goggles that put the kids off

 

[Emmit]

I think your missis is having you on ,does she giggle when she’s placing them

Who's missus?

 

[jockaneezer]

As kids, we didn't have any conker trees locally, so got a mate's Dad to drive us a few miles where we knew we would find some, proper adventure !
Getting them home, we put a hole through them using a square nail, the type used for horse shoes and threaded them into a leather shoe lace. Some got "pickled" in vinegar and put on the hearth to harden them up for the battles at school !
I remember the we used to call the flat ones "cheesers" good for attack, but not so good in defence !

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[AJM2]

As a kid I could only have dreamed of all the conker trees around here and never see anyone collecting them. I personally still get a little excited when I see a really good one

 

[Spriddler]

She puts them in the corner of the rooms at home to ward off spiders.

I've been doing that for 20 years because spiders give me the heeby-jeebies and I can't sleep in a room where I've seen one.
I think it stems from my youth when for 4 years (aged 8 to 12) I had to sleep on a wooden frame with webbing that my Dad made and was fitted over the bath each night . Every morning there was a girt great spider in the bath. He later put some boards down in the loft and I slept up there on a camp bed but the loft was full of spiders which scuttled off behind the rafters when I got to the top of the ladder and turned on the lead light.

 

[jockaneezer]

I've been doing that for 20 years because spiders give me the heeby-jeebies and I can't sleep in a room where I've seen one.
I think it stems from my youth when for 4 years (aged 8 to 12) I had to sleep on a wooden frame with webbing that my Dad made and was fitted over the bath each night . Every morning there was a girt great spider in the bath. He later put some boards down in the loft and I slept up there on a camp bed but the loft was full of spiders which scuttled off behind the rafters when I got to the top of the ladder and turned on the lead light.

Did you also look forward to the first snows of winter, shouting "Come on Dad, it's snowing, you know the deal, let me back in !"

 

[Emmit]

I've been doing that for 20 years because spiders give me the heeby-jeebies and I can't sleep in a room where I've seen one.
I think it stems from my youth when for 4 years (aged 8 to 12) I had to sleep on a wooden frame with webbing that my Dad made and was fitted over the bath each night . Every morning there was a girt great spider in the bath. He later put some boards down in the loft and I slept up there on a camp bed but the loft was full of spiders which scuttled off behind the rafters when I got to the top of the ladder and turned on the lead light.

Are you sure you weren't in the 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch?

 

[Spriddler]

Are you sure you weren't in the 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch?

I must have been a great inconvenience because my only other sibling was my sister who was 21 years my senior and was in the same nursing home at the same time as my Mum and had her own son there 4 days before my Mum had me. She used to joke that I, (his uncle) was younger than her son (my nephew), although the relevance of that was lost on me.
The unusualness of that time had never ocurred to me until many years later when we had our own young children and I happened to mention it in conversation to my wife who was horrified. Then upon reflection it did seem rather odd but at the time, as a kid one doesn't really consider these things objectively as life is what it is and home is home.

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[RobbyMClark]

Me ready for a conker fight !

 

[Cal54]

I can’t help picking up a pocket full of conkers when I see them nice and shiny on the ground. I previously used them in the corners of every room to keep the spiders ay bay, and I was convinced they helped. I now live in a 3rd floor apartment and never seen a spider. Big problem is I now have a bag of conkers and nothing to do with them!

 

[mitzimad]

Just seen kids on holland throwing sticks up a conker tree so assume they. Plau conkers here

 

[Northernraider]

Schools ( in Scotland anyway) banned them due to elf and shifty so kids don't pick them up anymore.

Tried the spider trick years ago and the spiders sat on them laughing.
It's as false as the dogs n cucumbers

 

[G-RMPS]

We have conkers rolling around in door pockets (or similar) in the car and the van. Don’t know who puts them there, or why. Certainly not me

There’s fir cones in the cave at the back. Been there for years. Another mystery.

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