I'm just a kid when it comes to conkers! I don't want to fight with them - heaven forbid!! I just love the smoothness, the shiny brownness, the way they peep from their cases - everything about them!
So I tried to look as though I wasn't actually collecting conkers in the park this afternoon, (it didn't seem the sort of thing very elderly dog-walkers should be doing!)and picked a few up as I came home. There were loads scattered all over the ground. When I was a child they would have disappeared as fast as small boys could stuff them in their pockets!
And then I enjoyed myself taking photographs of their gorgeous brown shininess.
And now I'm sharing them with you, in case there are other conker-lovers around!
12 comments:
Chesnuts!! So now will you roast them over an open fire?
Wow! I haven't seen those in years!
They are not edible - they are Horse Chestnuts - conkers!
I've always wondered about conkers - how did that ever get started? I've been known to pick up a few chestnuts and acorns and pinecones and use them for decoration. (I love that they last forever!)
Gorgeous, they are like jewels inside a velvet case. I pick them up too and never know what to do with them though as children we devised all sorts of ways to pickle them to make them stronger for conker fights.
I'm a conker lover too - such a beautiful colour. I used to wear Boots No7 "Shiny Conker" nail polish in the 80's - I was gutted when they discontinued it! I collect tons of them - just like I did when I was a child. xxx
i have a bowl of them behind my desk....reach round and touch them as I work :)
We don't have any conkers around here. They are rather pretty.
I have never heard them called 'conkers', just chestnuts. I didn't know there was a difference between horse chestnuts and ones you can eat. I have gathered them and love the shiny brown shells, but as we have moved over the years I have lost track of where the trees are that drop them. Must be time for a fall walk.
Ah do you call them conkers I love them too My mum had a chestnut tree in her garden and we used to make puppetswith it with matches for arms and legs
I love the richess of this photo.... Conkers! You British have new words for everything! hahaha! :)
Conkers?! Ha ha, that sounds very English! What did the boys collect them to conk each other on the heads with them?!
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