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Offline knackered

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Conkers are great!
« on: September 13, 2007, 17:11:13 pm »
Me and my 20 month DS have just spent a very enjoyable hour discovering (rediscovering for me) the joys of conkers. We sat under a horse chestnut tree and opened up loads of them. Each one was a surprise and wonder for both of us. They really are amazing things! I really recommend it. Not sure who enjoyed it more!  ;D

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Re: Conkers are great!
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2007, 17:25:23 pm »
My MIL and William went collecting conkers last week and had a wonderful time collecting them, looking at them , counting them, talking about them. I think they are gorgeous looking things too..

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Re: Conkers are great!
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2007, 18:19:34 pm »
I love conkers!
Lots of our horse chesnuts have had some horrid disease though. They do NOT look in good shape. Pathetic little mini-conkers fell off ages ago and we seem to now be low on any decent ones :'(
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Re: Conkers are great!
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2007, 13:13:52 pm »
i have no idea what conkers are! 

do you collect them just to play with or do you eat them?
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Re: Conkers are great!
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2007, 14:11:56 pm »
Not for eating, just playing/admiring/collecting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker

They come from the Horse Chestnut tree. 'Eating chestnuts' come from the Sweet Chestnut tree - quite different and not related.
Horse chestnuts are actually poisonous (but you'd have to have diamond teeth to bite into one anyway) - apparently eating them can cause vomiting and sometimes paralysis. But they're fun - honest!
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