conkers bonkers!

[desprateseagull]

BBC News - Council sign warns of falling conkers

just what do people expect, when standing under a tree??

 

[Neil]

Bonkers Conkers is the name of a nice Free Ale at my club last week

 

[Conkers]

I thought this was going to be a thread about my time in St Francis Mental Institution.

 

[Durlston]

I thought this was going to be a thread about my time in St Francis Mental Institution.

They send all us nutters to Linwood now.

 

[severnside gull]

I was walking the dogs along the banks of the River Severn today when a delightful old lady stopped to tell me that the conkers this year are softer than usual because of disease. Whether true or not (and whether or not one might have fallen on her head prompting her unsolicited advice on the matter) I have no idea but this appears to be the perfect forum through which to share her wisdom.

 

[cannedheat]

And so they should put up a warning notice conkers kill and injure thousand every Autumn.

 

[beorhthelm]

dont know if it effects the conkers but there has been a disease (or a pest) spreading through the horsecheshnuts for a couple of years. makes their leaves go brown and shed them much earlier than they should.

 

[Worthai Seagull]

dont know if it effects the conkers but there has been a disease (or a pest) spreading through the horsecheshnuts for a couple of years. makes their leaves go brown and shed them much earlier than they should.

Thats for sure....mine started going brown in mid summer , and have been shedding for ages

 

[hastings]

Unbelievable. Living 10 mins from this tree and listening as a radio presenter has spent all morning under this tree, i cannot believe i am now reading it on here.

 

[keaton]

Some Tory MP was whining about this as well, is that bonkers to put up a temporary sign?

MPs and the BBC have wasted far more public money whinging about it than whoever put up the sign. And it's a sign, they've not banned anything

 

[Return of the Rev]

They should put a warning on fag packets about conkers! imagine if you are sheltering from the wind under a tree while trying to light up and you get hit by a rogue conker! its an outrage

 

[Iamapen15]

This actually follows an incident in Nottingham from last year. Local Councils are now scared of being sued! The article below was in the Metro and, I believe, The Daily Mail.

Council ‘just bonkers’ after stripping tree of all conkers

All the conkers have been removed from a giant horse chestnut tree after a girl fractured her skull.


They were gathered up after Katie Roden was hit on the head by a branch thrown into the tree by children trying to dislodge conkers.

Katie, five, needed surgery and her parents, Tracey and James, were told she was lucky the 1kg (2lb) branch had not pierced her brain.

But the accident was more than a year ago and Nottingham City Council has now been accused of wasting money.

‘This is absolutely pathetic,’ one resident said in an online forum. ‘I was walking down the road and tripped on a banana skin.

‘I demand the council ban all bananas from our county to make sure I never again have to suffer the pain of a sore bum.’ Another added: ‘This madness must stop. This is why our council tax is so high.’

Mrs Roden, 40, said: ‘Maybe the council is worried that it might be held liable. It’s amazing how they worry 16 whole months after the incident.’ Katie has since recovered.

A council spokesman said they were not killjoys but had decided it was safer to get two employees to pick the conkers and put them on the ground for children to collect. ‘It’s a solution to a particular problem and not something we plan to do anywhere else,’ he added.

 

[keaton]

That sounds pretty sensible to me

 

[Gazwag]

‘This is absolutely pathetic,’ one resident said in an online forum. ‘I was walking down the road and tripped on a banana skin.

just how big was this banana skin

 

[footychick]

Is that in Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds?
It's a lovely place.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Thats for sure....mine started going brown in mid summer , and have been shedding for ages

in my pants..sorry wrong thread.

 

[strings]

Is that in Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds?
It's a lovely place.

One of my close friends took his ladyfriend for a picnic there and proposed - she is now his fiance.

 

[Danny-Boy]

I read somewhere that you can make soap from the inside of conkers, I think you have to boil 'em up or something. supposed to be the saponin in them.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Thats for sure....mine started going brown in mid summer , and have been shedding for ages

Is "shedding" a bit like cottaging, but on a smaller scale ?