Do you remember the days. The days before health & Safety decided that playing conkers was unsafe.
We would scour the trees and the ground beneath them for the spiky shells containing those beautiful brown centres that as children we knew that after soaking them in vinegar and then warming them in an oven, would harden them. We could then drill a fine hole in them, and thread a piece of string through the centre. With careful aim, we could become champions.
Today, we save our knuckles from the inevitable pain, and instead, we collect them and polish them and use them decoratively around our home.
And of course, we use them to pile in the corners of each room to deter the invasion of spiders. All of whom have decided to come indoors now the temperature is falling.
I don’t think it works!
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