17-11-2023, 01:32 PM
Conkers are a fantastic opportunity that is being missed by parents and school teachers.
They could so easily be used as an excuse to teach the kids to use a shovel and broom to clear up afterwards.
It is unbelievable how much adults hate children playing conkers. I took a leaf out of the newspapers and invented my own unit of measurement.
How many cat-vets is a game of conkers worth. Most pet owners know the amount hatred that is involved when a domestic cat has to be carted off to the vet. How many cats do you have to take to the vet to generate the same amount of hatred adults have for one game of conkers? How many swimming pools full of conkers so children collect every year?
Another unit of measurement I use is DWF for the noise infants make when they bored to tears in supermarkets on Saturday mornings.
DWF=Dads watching football.
Adults just hate conkers and shall not be moved.
At my grans house there was a tight cluster of three conker trees in the front garden with a story.
When my dad was at that age he collected more than enough conkers and left them in a box upstairs.
His mom nudged the box and it let loose allowing the conkers to roll down the stairs.
Handfuls of them were furiously tossed into the coal fire where they rebelled and made even more mess than they would have done if they were played. She then buried the remainder of them in the front garden.
By the time I was that age the resulting trees were producing conkers.
She had buried them too deep for the saplings to be easily weeded out.
They could so easily be used as an excuse to teach the kids to use a shovel and broom to clear up afterwards.
It is unbelievable how much adults hate children playing conkers. I took a leaf out of the newspapers and invented my own unit of measurement.
How many cat-vets is a game of conkers worth. Most pet owners know the amount hatred that is involved when a domestic cat has to be carted off to the vet. How many cats do you have to take to the vet to generate the same amount of hatred adults have for one game of conkers? How many swimming pools full of conkers so children collect every year?
Another unit of measurement I use is DWF for the noise infants make when they bored to tears in supermarkets on Saturday mornings.
DWF=Dads watching football.
Adults just hate conkers and shall not be moved.
At my grans house there was a tight cluster of three conker trees in the front garden with a story.
When my dad was at that age he collected more than enough conkers and left them in a box upstairs.
His mom nudged the box and it let loose allowing the conkers to roll down the stairs.
Handfuls of them were furiously tossed into the coal fire where they rebelled and made even more mess than they would have done if they were played. She then buried the remainder of them in the front garden.
By the time I was that age the resulting trees were producing conkers.
She had buried them too deep for the saplings to be easily weeded out.
