Hi friends
Can you see what I’m up to? I love this time of year as I love playing conkers. Well, you might think that we mice are far too small to play conkers but we don’t play it like you humans do, with horse chestnuts drilled with a hole and a piece of string tied through, no we have our own special way, which we think is great.
First of all we find a horse chestnut tree, they do look lovely when the blossom is out, but then we know that good conkers will form. When the wind blows the chestnuts fall off and we mice then push them into the hedge for safety so no one can see us, then we climb on top and start gnawing away at the shell. If we are lucky some will burst open. Then we push and pull and get the lovely rich brown shiny conker out.
When we have got enough, say about six, we line them up and then climb on top of them, the challenge is to run up and down the line of conkers as fast as you can without falling off or moving the conkers. It’s not as easy as you may think. I have to say, Parchina is very good at this as she is able to dash up and down the line of conkers many times. I think her record is 16 and the conkers never move. I can manage about 12 times but then my legs get tired and I slow down a bit and the conkers then start to roll. Last year I fell off and badly bruised my nose, but it was good fun.
So if you see any conkers in a line, you will know we mice have been playing conkers!
