Comments on: Environment Bombs Britain (Wear A Hat) http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/enviroment-bombs-britain#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=enviroment-bombs-britain I Came, I Saw, I Suffered Immensely Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:33:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mikeachim http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/enviroment-bombs-britain#comment-516 Mikeachim Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:13:57 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=598#comment-516 <b>Sticks, eh? That be witchery round here, that be. If Nature had meant sticks to fly, she'd be givin' 'em wings, she'd be. Did you find that lobbing sticks hurried conkers along a little too much, so they were a bit pale and squishy no matter how much you <s>baked them in the oven</s> allowed them to mature naturally as the unspoken rules specified?</b> Sticks, eh?

That be witchery round here, that be. If Nature had meant sticks to fly, she’d be givin’ ‘em wings, she’d be.

Did you find that lobbing sticks hurried conkers along a little too much, so they were a bit pale and squishy no matter how much you baked them in the oven allowed them to mature naturally as the unspoken rules specified?

]]> By: disgruntled http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/enviroment-bombs-britain#comment-498 disgruntled Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:33:38 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=598#comment-498 hehe. Every October we had the announcement at assembly at school reminding us not to throw sticks into the Horse Chestnut tree to get the conkers down, but to wait until they fell down naturally and were ripe enough 'to be put to the use that God and small boys intended for them'. This being the Annual Joke, we all laughed dutifully and went and chucked sticks up at it anyway. Of course, this was before Health'n'Safety... and sexism, now I come to think about it. hehe. Every October we had the announcement at assembly at school reminding us not to throw sticks into the Horse Chestnut tree to get the conkers down, but to wait until they fell down naturally and were ripe enough ‘to be put to the use that God and small boys intended for them’. This being the Annual Joke, we all laughed dutifully and went and chucked sticks up at it anyway. Of course, this was before Health’n'Safety… and sexism, now I come to think about it.

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