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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

I collect them for my daughter and she stays well clear. I "aquired" a long aluminium pole to knok them down though she stills thinks I should climb the tree take my pole and batter more down. A carrier bag full aint enough for her and wouldnt mind but SHE DOSNT PLAY CONKERS! Starting to wonder if she is flogging them at school.

An entrepreneur in the making SPUGGIE J. Encourage her then she can keep you in your old age.

At Ossy Tech back in the late forties and early fifties I would buy a packet of 50 elastic bands for 6d and sell them at 3 for a penny. Tied together they made an excellent finger catapult to fire paper pellets. I even made the paper pellets and sold them at 10 for a penny. A 3 inches square of paper rolled from one corner made first rate missiles to fire from the finger catapult and were much more accurate than folded paper that most people used. Most people couldn’t roll and bend the result to make a missile without it cracking at the fold. The trick was to roll them a little bit loose then they wouldn’t crack when bent to form an arrow.

I suppose that today the PC lot would throw their arms up in horror at kids firing at bits of paper at each other across a classroom.