It has become our tradition to make a trip in October and to go on a conker hunt. There are seven or eight tall graceful horse chestnuts. As we get close there is always that slight apprehension we will be too late and they will all be gone and then suddenly someone spots one and the hunt is on. Who will collect the most? Who will collect the biggest? Who will find one still encased in its shell?
We did not collect many this year but there are some beauties and the kids are big enough this year to want to learn to play conkers so we will need to make that bit of time to get the biggest laced up and then it is fight to the death, of the conker that is. I seem to remember one of my brothers claiming to have at least a 17-er!!
Traditions can get squeezed out- not enough time, too many important things to do.
Traditions, you got to have them and it is so worth keeping them!!
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traditions like whacking your family members with wrapping paper tubes at christmas...may tradition live on!
Ours are almost big enough to carry the tubes and run.......!!
Okay, so this is helpful. We were watching an episode of Kipper where Kipper and Tiger were playing conkers. I thought it was a made up game. What in the hockeysticks is conkers?
Another conker post to follow me thinks!!
Free, gratis and for nothing, here is a top tip involving conkers - Apparently this autumn, because of the weather we've had over the past few months there are to be many many more spiders running about. To stop them coming into your house (we're not big spider lovers in our house) they really don't like the smell of horse chestnuts (conkers)so put them at your likely entry points or in your rooms.
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