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Nestled side by side
cocooned in spikey armour
prepared for battle
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by Scooj
- Although no longer permitted in the schoolyard, the game of conkers was one of those things that we simply grew up with. The excitement of collecting shiny new conkers and breaking them free from their shells was one of autumn’s pure joys. A cheese-cutter was a flattened conker that had shared its outer shell with another and were thought to bestow an advantage by cracking open your opponent’s conker using the sharp flat edge. such happy days. I still find new conkers irresistible and still come home with pocketfuls of them.
Natural adventures 
Time to bury a few and see if any germinate . . .
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Where would I put them?
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What I do from time to time is just to bury one a few inches down in a pot of soil.
I now have a little one thats in it’s second year and a bigger one that’s over ten years old.
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Maybe you have a calling to grow them, please do, as we all love to see horse chestnut trees in full bloom. 🌳
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I’ll pop them in pots and see what happens.
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I love that. Mother had pine cones in her window going ripe, that every now and then you could hear them popping open in the sunshine. She grew the seeds in pots. 🌱
At 90 a plant-based 🍓🍒🥕🍌🍵🍇🍆
personification of
“Never too late to do something positive”.
🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌴🌳🌳🌲🌳🌴🌲🌳
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Maybe you have a calling to grow them, please do, as we all love to see horse chestnut trees in full bloom. 🌳
Become a guerrilla gardener.
http://www.guerrillagardening.org/
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Cheese-cutter On Saturday, October 9, 2021, Natural adventures wrote:
> scooj posted: ” . Nestled side by side cocooned in spikey armour prepared > for battle . by Scooj Although no longer permitted in the schoolyard, the > game of conkers was one of those things that we simply grew up with. The > excitement of collecting shiny” >
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