Insignificant Temps Tale:-

When we were small my folks used to bring us to Mass and afterwards we would go around the church grounds collecting conkers.  I used to love it and when my sister was born I always swore when she was old enough, I'd bring her down to the Church (our family had long since given up the Mass thing by the time she came along ) and do likewise with her.  She's 20 next month and I haven't brought her once

I think when I call today, I'll dig her out of her pit, hungover and panda-eye-city and drag her down to the church

And no, I'm not pro, I always got my fingers whacked

They've all gone here....they were coming off the trees in the summer holidays which is unheard of!!

Mine didn't collect any this year which is good cos that means the house doesn't smell of vinegar and baking conkers and all the shoes that should have laces, still have them!

I hope you're keeping those conkers away from kids? Government said they are dangerous.

There will be a health warning on encouraging / sanctioning the use of imaginary friends next; then where will I be?

They cut down all the horse chestnut trees in my local park. I swear it was just to stop the kids throwing sticks up at the branches to get conkers (not sure if this was driven by risk aversion or the need to pay gardeners to clean up the leaves).

This isn't such a bad thing...my niece's Space Unihorn keeps robbing all the kit-kats

I feel ya  

Funny how IBF's are all so greedy and / or untidy and / or destructive, eh? When my son was four, his was into wall art. Big time. Never caught 'him' though (to the point I began to grip on reality). 

  it's actually a bit disturbing when you hear them talk about them first....when my niece first mentioned Lila I didn't know what the hell she was talking about...I was driving the car and she started talking about this Unihorn with a multicoloured tail (unihorn not unicorn because she has one horn ), I asked if she was from a TV prog she said no...she's sitting beside me now

Heheheh. Your niece sounds like a total poppet and eminently wise (they *should* be called unihorns!). Betcha checked to see if it was there?

Of course! 

I told her, her tail was looking particularly shiny that day

At that point they usually retort with something like..."He / she cut it off last night".

See you later, Temps. ~x Laundry time.

I would say definitely one or two

They are perfectly safe if you dress your kids in sharps gloves, BS 5750 safety goggles, and cullendars. Don't forget to take the conkers to your local heel bar. They will drill them and give you a choice of laces.

I remember once throwing my mothers yard brush up a chestnut tree to make the conkers fall and it got stuck.  Then I had to climb the bliddy thing to retrieve said brush and promptly fell out of the tree and broke my ankle   but I got my conkers and the brush so all was well

We actually took the kids conker picking yesterday....

and today I've found some under the sofa..in pockets of clothes that I've washed..in drawers with socks...in the oven    (that might have been the husband that did that...)


tomorrow...they will all be found in the bin.  

i have a big bowl full of varnished conkers that i collected about 9 years ago

my eldest brings a bagfull home everyday!! got nowhere to put the bloody things

Remember your goggles..
*Conker safety regulator*

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