| He holds the world record for conkers by demolishing 306 in an hour, but has not yet won the Irish title. |
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| A headmaster has bought his pupils safety goggles in a bid to stop a council banning games of conkers. |
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| To recover they need to feast on conkers, acorns and sweet chestnuts, which is why visitors are exhorted not to gather these items. |
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| Some friends and I were innocently collecting conkers, when suddenly the owner arrived on the scene with a gun in his hand. |
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| More than a thousand conkers had been harvested from the arboretum's 102 horse chestnut trees for use in a variety of games. |
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| I read that certain games are to be banned in school playgrounds, including conkers and skipping, for fear of accidents. |
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| Children can look out for other large tree seeds such as beech masts and acorns which can be sown in the same way as the conkers. |
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| In some areas, horse chestnut trees have been cut down because of the possibility that children might be hurt playing conkers. |
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| Collect interesting bits of natural objects, such as bark, leaves, conkers and acorns to label and display at home. |
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| We all have memories of playing conkers, or dunking apples and collecting leaves at this time of year. |
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| In my childhood we were allowed to play conkers, whip-and-top, hopscotch and even put jacket potatoes on the bonfires. |
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| But when you show me children, it is easier for me to believe the horrors if I also see them playing Knock Down Ginger, or conkers, or whatever. |
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| The children just love conkers, which is a game that many of them had never played before. |
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| This has caused such a flurry in Tess's world of education that her school has now banned sledging, along with conkers, marbles, yo-yos and the sack race at school sports. |
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| The motoring lobby had been protesting, like so many schoolboys banned from baking their conkers, that concealed speed cameras were a rotten swizz. |
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| Governors and staff imposed the ban on the traditional break-time game because of fears the conkers could cause an anaphylactic reaction in children with nut allergies. |
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| Why can't the servants of the nanny state stick to outlawing other white-knuckle sports, like the games of conkers they've been targeting over the past few days? |
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| All conkers and strings are supplied by the competition organisers. |
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| Where there are no obstacles, a buddy line can be a useful safety aid, but beware of the line snagging and divers colliding like a pair of conkers on strings. |
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| The poor creatures aren't even allowed to play conkers at school any more. |
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| Strong conkers were gathered in the woods, carefully dried, bored and threaded onto pieces of strong string with a secure double knot under the conker. |
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| Spiked shells of horse chestnut lay wedged between the coping stones of the stone wall, their conkers spilled on to the pavement. |
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| It was realised that the only true champion conkers grew naturally and they were the biggest and ripest ones to fall from the tree. |
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| It is absurd for a local council to cut down perfectly good horse chestnut trees for fear that pedestrians will sue if they are hit by conkers. |
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| The Truth: No legislation outlaws skipping, playing conkers or climbing trees. |
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| She left the marks of her great physical endeavour on the interior surface of the wood, though the outsides were burnished like conkers. |
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| One in five had been banned from playing conkers and one in six were not allowed to play chase because over-protective parents had ruled that it was too dangerous. |
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| Top Gear has made an art out of playing with fire: firing a Mini off a ski jump, swinging caravans like conkers and destroying a Nissan Sunny with the flames from a dragster. |
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| We nicked crab apples, played conkers, fired peashooters, dodged into the local cinema and chased the girls who played peever. |
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| German children love to make animals with conkers during autumn as well. |
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| They had already been and collected conkers, but they wanted some more. |
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| Every year some children tried to find ways of making their conkers harder, to withstand the continuous knocking from others and so become the champion, the strongest conker of all. |
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| For, while conkers are inedible, sweet chestnuts are a gourmet autumn treat. |
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| It's the time of year for scavenger hunts and my sisters and I would go out looking for fallen leaves, spinning jennies, conkers, beech nuts and acorns. |
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| When my mum picked me up after school I'd always start telling her some childish anecdote about playing conkers, scrumping apples or sniffing marker pens. |
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| The Ministry for Munitions began undertaking experiments on numerous other materials until they made the discovery that acetone could be drawn out of conkers. |
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