A trip down memory lane

[Zincubus]

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Look very much like a Brazil nut. Are they edible?

dandelion and burdock. Please enliten me.

I seem to recall people do like roasted horse chestnuts ..

Plus the gorgeous tasting .. D&B




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[Donald the Great]

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Look very much like a Brazil nut. Are they edible?

dandelion and burdock. Please enliten me.

[Zincubus]

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My mate had a disused coal house at the bottom of the yard, we lit candles and stuck posters on the walls. We would simply sit and talk rubbish whilst drinking dandelion and burdock

That's still my fave soft drink !!
Trouble is there are a few nice ones around but there are also a few companies who can't make it properly


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[tex]

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Wow good work !!

That's triggered so many forgotten memories... I recall building dens but only around late October early November when we collected planks / old doors from the local area for our annual bonfire !!

Local gangs would either try and steal wood or even set fire to our bommie days before Nov 5th !!


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My mate had a disused coal house at the bottom of the yard, we lit candles and stuck posters on the walls. We would simply sit and talk rubbish whilst drinking dandelion and burdock

[Zincubus]

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gotcha. Are they a kinda nut?

Horse chestnut trees have such distinctive leaves like a hand ?







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[Donald the Great]

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gotcha. Are they a kinda nut?

[George 1978]

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I can imagine anyone fighting with something sharpened at one end such as a pencil...

[Zincubus]

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Ahh we did that bit with ice lolly sticks .. I'd forgotten all about that !!


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[victorbrunswick]

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You'll have to explain that


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It was called pencil fighting. You would hold out your pencil horizontally, grasping it with both hands while your opponent would take a whack at it with his pencil. Then you'd take turns until one of the pencils broke.

[Zincubus]

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We played a variant of conkers using pencils instead.

You'll have to explain that


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[victorbrunswick]

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XD Buster Gonad also springs to mind!

I remember one of our school teachers lived near a mate of mine and she had a big Horse Chestnut (conker) tree in her front garden and used to let us climb it to get the biggest ones we could find.

I recently found a 1988-89 volume of The Best of Viz at a yard sale near my house.

[victorbrunswick]

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Conkers was great fun ... you tie one of your nuts on the end of a piece of string and your mate does the same thing then you take it in turns to smash them together ..

It doesn't sound much like fun but you'd have to be there


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We played a variant of conkers using pencils instead.

[George 1978]

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It's amazing that back then it was wood that people wanted for their activities - these days its scrap metal and lead off church roofs.

[Zincubus]

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BUILDING A DEN...

Another big part of childhood in Britain was to build a den, with the plethora of waste ground available in the 60s there was always lots of building materials lying around, commonly old floorboards, doors etc. You and your chosen gang would find a suitably secret area and construct your own little place to go smoke and look at nudey books, strictly no girls allowed. Tetanus jabs were optional as the rusty nails would eventually get you. Invariably a rival gang would find your den and trash it.

Wow good work !!

That's triggered so many forgotten memories... I recall building dens but only around late October early November when we collected planks / old doors from the local area for our annual bonfire !!

Local gangs would either try and steal wood or even set fire to our bommie days before Nov 5th !!


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[tex]

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BUILDING A DEN...

Another big part of childhood in Britain was to build a den, with the plethora of waste ground available in the 60s there was always lots of building materials lying around, commonly old floorboards, doors etc. You and your chosen gang would find a suitably secret area and construct your own little place to go smoke and look at nudey books, strictly no girls allowed. Tetanus jabs were optional as the rusty nails would eventually get you. Invariably a rival gang would find your den and trash it.