Conkers
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More from In the Garden Set For those wondering the core was already there but I did place the other whole one on the bench. This is taken in the La Cock grounds, where photography was born.
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Horse chestnuts (conkers)
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...and now for something completely different.
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Just a bunch of Horse Chestnuts or Conkers as we call them over here.
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Just a bunch of Horse Chestnuts or Conkers as we call them over here. A second image with a different background.
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Horse Chestnut or Conker with light and shadow
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The leaves had fallen yet they prepared the ground for the new growth in the conker seed
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A hugeThanks to my friend |anthony for giving me an idea to shot this subject..hope you like it and you all!
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card matted print laminated mounted canvas framed poster rb redbubble autumn fruit life nuts still conker berry blackberry pine /
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Conkers is a game traditionally played by children in Britain, the Republic of Ireland and some former British colonies using the nuts of horse-chestnut trees – the name conker is also applied to the nut and to the tree itself. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they take turns to strike each other’s conker until one breaks.
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Inspired by my friend Carl’s love of YOUTUBEpoop and Mr Vulcano Make sure you also check out my Bubble Site for more great designs, examples of which you can see below.
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Wild parrots settle in suburbs / By Sean Coughlan / BBC News education The number of wild parrots living in England is rising at 30% per year, says an Oxford University research project. Parks and gardens in the leafy London suburbs have been adopted as a preferred habitat by birds that are native to southern Asia. In the Surrey stockbroker belt, a single sports ground is believed to be home to about 3,000 parrots. The rate of increase, helped by mild winters, is much greater than had been expected. The findings have also been echoed by a large number of e-mails from BBC News Online readers, who have reported how parrots – particularly parakeets – have now become familiar sights. Parrot hotspots These hundreds of e-mails, including photographs, highlighted hotspots such as west of London, Surrey and parts of Kent. Parakeets in King George Park in Ramsgate / Parakeets in King George Park in Ramsgate, / But there were also parrots reported in inner-London, including parks in Peckham, Brixton, Greenwich and Kensington. And a few parrots had been spotted in East Anglia, the North West and in Scotland. There were also sightings from readers overseas, reporting urban parrots in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain and the United States. E-mails from readers also offer a range of theories about the arrival of parrots in Britain – including that they were brought by Jimi Hendrix, that they escaped during the making of a film and that they were released from aviaries damaged during the great storm of 1987. Researchers have been tracking several varieties of parakeet, originally from countries such as India and Brazil, but which are now surviving in ever-greater numbers in southern England. The findings, from Oxford University’s Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, give a glimpse of exotic creatures in unlikely places. / Last summer, there were areas of woodland that sounded more like equatorial rain forest than suburban parkland. / Adam Tandy, Richmond / Alexandrine parakeets have been spotted by Lewisham crematorium and orange-winged parakeets, native to the Amazon, have now set up home in Weybridge. South American monk parakeets have formed a colony in Borehamwood and blue-crowned parakeets were observed in Bromley. There have been reports that there could now be 20,000 wild parrots, including parakeets, living in England, with the largest concentration around London and the South East. The population boom has been put down to a series of mild winters, a lack of natural predators, food being available from humans and that there are now enough parrots for a wider range of breeding partners. In particular, they have been observed in growing numbers in the outer suburbs and the Home Counties, with trees in parkland and sports grounds becoming their homes. / taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3869815.stm
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Shot on a street in Pymble, Sydney, in April 2007.
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/ When I was a little boy I used to come home from Cob Joe Lane with my pockets bulging with these things…..CONKERS…...or Horse Chestnuts…...I know these are fairly prolific in the Northern Hemisphere but dont know about the southern one….Anyhow…what you do is knot a piece of string at one end and put a hole in a conker (I almost poked my eye out with a gimlet putting a hole in a conker when I was 12) and thread it onto the string….you then find another child, with a conker on a string and you take it in turns, whacking the other childs conker with yours….the winner being the one whos conker does not shatter. The rules become entangled with jags and stamps….if the conkers tangle and you are the first to shout JAGS then you get three free shots…....If entangling of strings leads to the conker being yanked out of your hand and ending up on the floor then you played STAMPS whereby you would stamp on the conker thus ending the game! The latter rule often ending up in ‘disagreements’ between children….anyhow….my point is this! I have been a teacher for the last 10 years and have never once found kids playing conkers…....WHY NOT? I hear you cry…...well…..because its been banned because its too dangerous! They may get a bit in their eye or some other such gumph….which believe it or not has led to litigation….schools being sued because little jonny got a bit of conker in his eye….the school therefore not providing a careful and safe environment thus not meeting its obligation….kids are also not allowed to throw snowballs during freetime when it snows for the same reason…...its ludicrous and makes me despair! Just what are we doing to our kids…...what message are we sending….is cotton wool wrapping doing them any good? It amazes me that people are content to let their offspring while away the hours tucked up in their rooms playing on their Xbox or whatever blowing things to bits, looking at god knows what on the Internet on their PC, sending each other poisonous messages on MSN (if you make threats or swear on MSN and the recipient records it the police will prosecute you), take part in internet chat rooms etc but they kick up a stink about conkers and snowballs…The mind boggles….6 years as a year head tells me thats true! I spend more time than a little sorting out fall outs caused by MSN…...I advise you all to remove it from the machines your kids have access too. Now, dont get me wrong, there are some nasty things and nasty people out there and we must protect our children from it….but lets get it right…...you have to teach your kids to swim in the real world…not wrap them up…...whats more dangerous…...your kid playing conkers or being groomed in a chat room? I did my bi-annual child protection training refresher yesterday. It made me think…..If you have kids who have an internet ready PC in their room and you’re not sure what they’re looking at watch this clip / Its a humorous clip but puts a point across and ends up being quite sobering.
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More painting with light. /
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I’ve made a few changes to this! I loved the original shot but after having a play, I love this more! It has a more nostalgic feel to it, and the textures I’ve used give it a warmer light. Taken in the woods near Blickling Hall, Norfolk. The couple were very busy collecting conkers! Canon EOS 450D. Texture from here, plus one of my own.
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