To be annoyed by the man aged at least 40 outside the primary school

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Who was groveling about on the ground making sure he gets ALL the conkers before the children come out?

(Also he reminds me of Mr Tumnus ) (and not in a good way)

YANBU.

Competitive fecker.

at Mr Tumnus.

That is very mean of him.

Are you sure he wasn't working for the health & safety brigade? I understood that conkers were one of the new deadly hazards of childhood...

If he resembles Tumnus he is not to be trusted.

Slightly worried that I was seen getting my 'supply' for spider removal and someone will have posted about a woman who was at least 40...

Would it be ok if I'd had makeup on and brushed my hair and made an effort to look at the younger end of my forties?

In my defence it wasn't outside a school.

Mabey hes just a poor loon with arachnaphobia ????
Conkers are supposed to ward of spiders .

Cub/Scout/other youth group leader perhaps???

It was only you if you have gingery sideburns and a bald spot

and as I pointed out to DS2 when he was too late to go up to the "garden" part of the school playground after school to collect conkers for the "guess the number of conkers" competition they're having.....and burst into tears

There will be plenty more conkers..........(and indeed a 2 minute trip round into the park found 2 - and that was after many of his peers had already been that way and colected some)

Am obviously mising something - do spiders not like conkers?

Or are you all fashioning elaborate spider squashing weapons?

Oooo that was me (only not 40 or male) this morning in the park! I did check noone was watching first. I'm also an arachnophobe!!

A little trebuchet aimed at the spider?

really - spiders don't like conkers???? is that true - DS2 has developed a bit of a thing about them.......

If spiders are deterred by conkers how is it that we have a conker on the kitchen windowsill and a huMUNgous spider was squatting on the lintel of the kitchen door?

Not sure yet if they are deterred by conkers but it rings a bell...

Don't say things like that fizzpops!!!!!!!!!!

What do you do with the conkers Odysseus

Leave them on windowsills, bookshelves etc to ward off the 8-legged enemy... I hope!

They work. Mostly

As long as they keep the really big HAIRY ones out, oooo or the really big ones with tiny bodies but ENORMOUS legs.

YANBU. He's not the only one. Only the other day I saw a grown man of at least fifty years old hanging around outside a primary school looking furtively around for children and jumping up any time they came near him. To top it all off he was wearing a garish yellow jacket and waving a big stick around. I heard him muttering under his breath about lollipops.

People like this make me sick and want banning.

droves
My dad has a conker in each room of his house and swears by them

He swears by them? What, in the manner of a slightly old-fashioned botanist. "By conker, that's good"