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2nd October 2019, 02:56 AM
#21
Re: Conkers
Another kids game which seems to have vanished is marbles. As young boys we would play marbles from home to the school gate - reversed going home.
Ken T
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2nd October 2019, 06:29 AM
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Re: Conkers
Marbles, reminds me of a neighbor many years ago.
Went to his doc with a problem with the toilet.
Doc gave him pills which he said he must put in his back passage.
Week later sees his doc and tells him the wife is in hospital.
How come asks the doc.
Well those pills you prescribed for me were about the size of marbles, put them in the back passage like you said and she slipped in them and broke her leg.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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2nd October 2019, 07:16 AM
#23
Re: Conkers
World Marbles Championships 2019
German side ‘1st MC Erzgebirge’ won this year’s World Marbles Championship on Good Friday (19th April) in West Sussex, beating former champions Black Dog Boozers by 39 – 0 in the one sided final.
The car park of the ‘The Greyhound’ public house may not be the most salubrious of locations but, according to folklore, this site has been used since 1588.
It is claimed that marbles has been played at Tinsley Green in West Sussex for hundreds of years, although the current World championship games hark back to its revival in the early 1930’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ZJeMUbEyY
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3rd October 2019, 05:38 AM
#24
Re: Conkers
Of course viewing what is ocurring in UK these days regarding the Parliament it could well be that the Conker season will soon be replaced by the bonkers season.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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3rd October 2019, 07:59 AM
#25
Re: Conkers
So that would mean that Bonkers season would be the same as losing one's marbles.
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3rd October 2019, 11:33 AM
#26
Re: Conkers
Did have a chuckle at that Trevor but,
do hope we keep to conkers and marbles
rather than politics. LOL. Keith.
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4th October 2019, 05:46 AM
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Re: Conkers
Originally Posted by
Trevor Bodiam
So that would mean that Bonkers season would be the same as losing one's marbles.
Trevor, half of them in the parliament lost their marbles years ago.
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4th October 2019, 08:10 AM
#28
Re: Conkers
Trevor, half of them in the parliament lost their marbles years ago. John
Wrong John
should have said ....ALL of them.
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4th October 2019, 07:28 PM
#29
Re: Conkers
Did health and safety ban conkers from playgrounds
From 2011.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/now-...s-6393736.html
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3rd January 2020, 05:49 PM
#30
Re: Conkers
Every year I go 'conker collecting' up the lane in front of our house, No! not to play conkers, but to put them in cupboards, under the sink, and on window sills, in fact, everywhere.
Why, I hear you ask. Well. my bride is terrified of spiders, especially the big variety, and some years ago one of our senior neighbours told me that her father used to put fresh conkers
all around the house every season to keep the spider population out. AND IT WORKS!! What with that, and our dog eating the odd spider, my better half can now open cupboards etc.
and not expect a big hairy monster to jump out on her
Dubious? Try it.
Failing that, try a big left boot!
Colin
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