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I really enjoyed this stroll in the woods.

I had to look up the word 'conkers' and found out that apart from the seed of the horse chestnut, it is also the name of a traditional game. Did you play it as a kid?

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Yes, as a kid we played conkers. But, it was banned at school on health and safety grounds. Bits of conker in the eye and painful conker blows to the hands and wrists.

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Rough, fast and furious games in the good old days, weren't they?

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Yep.... Another one was British Bulldog. A rather rough tag-like game. Brutal. Or it was at my school.

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Just checked a couple of online videos. It's a miracle it doesn't turn into a free-for-all brawl.

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That was the problem, they often did.

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