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Over-the-Top Award from NPT @ The Nature..., 3 November 2009.
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'Blog of the Week' from Brett @ 365 to 42, 9 November 2009.
From Scriptor Senex @ Rambles From My Chair, 22 November 2009
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- DawnTreader
- Västergötland, Sweden
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My camera is a Nikon Coolpix 4600.
For basic editing of most photos and collages I use Picasa 3.
Sometimes I also experiment with some more "artistic" effects in Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro.
YOU WILL ALSO FIND ME HERE:
The Island of the Voices ~♥~ Wordly Efforts ~♥~ Through My Spectrespecs ~♥~ Soaring Through The World
7 comments:
The title of this post made me laugh! We don't call them "conkers," but that seems the most apt name I've ever heard of! (The photos are lovely, too. :)
Rae, I learned or was reminded of the word "conker" from Scriptor Senex, who used it in some post on the Soaring through the World blog earlier in the autumn. Looking it up again just now in the dictionary I keep nearest at hand, it says "conker = Brit. the dark brown nut of a horse chestnut tree". So I guess "conker" is used in Britain but perhaps not in the US... In Swedish we call them by the equivalent of "horse chestnuts", or often just chestnuts.
The name "conkers" comes from "conquerors". It's a game played with chestnuts by children (and adults!) in the UK. The idea is to swing your conker, threaded on somestring, against your opponents conker to see which breaks first!
Thank you very much for that info, Blogeomah! I did read somewhere that conkers was also a name of a game, but it was not really explained. Blogging is very educational... :)
I wasn't a tomboy by any means but do remember playing conkers in public school. We used to hammer a nail through the chesnuts and insert a long black lace so that there was a chesnut tied to each end.
Thanks for the memories..........
Interesting post and photos on the conkers. I do not remember playing the game though.
Fun! Have a great week!
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