alfieatkins
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brand names you dont hear anymorea remember when a was at high school travel fox were the 'in' trainer at the time but not heard from them since also spx and brittish knights were big but you dont hear about them now
what brands were 'the thing' when you were at school?
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MT VESSELS
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Farah Trousers, Sergio Tachini trackie and a pair of kickers
MT jnr
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accajacca
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| MT VESSELS wrote: | Farah Trousers, Sergio Tachini trackie and a pair of kickers
MT jnr |
would have thought there was still plenty of that gear knocking around in your neck of the woods MT...
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johnnio
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Lee Cooper jeans, I remember Tubeway Army did the music for one of their ads, very rare in those days.
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Rochesterlad
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Back in the late 80`s there was a cheap but very popular aftershave called Insignia! 
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Papa 3
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Setanta.?
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MT VESSELS
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| accajacca wrote: | | MT VESSELS wrote: | Farah Trousers, Sergio Tachini trackie and a pair of kickers
MT jnr |
would have thought there was still plenty of that gear knocking around in your neck of the woods MT... |
More Lacoste these days mate
MT jnr
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alfieatkins
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| Rochesterlad wrote: | | Back in the late 80`s there was a cheap but very popular aftershave called Insignia! |
yeah a can still remember the advert 'insigna's got everything from shampoo to shower gel' or somethin like that!
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Papa 3
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| alfieatkins wrote: | | Rochesterlad wrote: | | Back in the late 80`s there was a cheap but very popular aftershave called Insignia! |
yeah a can still remember the advert 'insigna's got everything from shampoo to shower gel' or somethin like that! |
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Rochesterlad
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| alfieatkins wrote: | | Rochesterlad wrote: | | Back in the late 80`s there was a cheap but very popular aftershave called Insignia! |
yeah a can still remember the advert 'insigna's got everything from shampoo to shower gel' or somethin like that! |
Back in 1987-88 i was working in a small wholesalers,and one day a rep from a company turned up selling a brand new deodorant/Shower gel called Lynx....He explained to my boss that there was room on the market for a new brand and it was worth him buying a few boxes...How right did he turn out to be!!
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alfieatkins
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| Papa 3 wrote: | | alfieatkins wrote: | | Rochesterlad wrote: | | Back in the late 80`s there was a cheap but very popular aftershave called Insignia! |
yeah a can still remember the advert 'insigna's got everything from shampoo to shower gel' or somethin like that! |
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is that your bottle papa
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Rochesterlad
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Hey Papa was that photo taken straight from your bathroom cabinet?!! 
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Rochesterlad
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Rochesterlad
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Ohhh my lord whats that yellow top all about!
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geordie_racer
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| johnnio wrote: | | Lee Cooper jeans, I remember Tubeway Army did the music for one of their ads, very rare in those days. |
it want garry numan who did it, it was an impersonator.
"dont be a dummy"
also
'insigna's got everything from shampoo to shower gel'
was followed with "deodorant and after shave for one all over smell.
try insignia, create a buzz not a hum"
why do i know this tripe?
of course loads of brand names have been changed (opal fruits, marathon etc) for international uniformity.
The brand name I most miss is Rumbelows because they used many years ago to run a good record club
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penleguin
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Ratners
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geordie_racer
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the first great corporate suicide.
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Papa 3
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| Rochesterlad wrote: | | Papa 3 wrote: |
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Hey Papa was that photo taken straight from your bathroom cabinet?!! |
Of course, next to my favourite deoderant.
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jennywales
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Bisto
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ngreggors
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Can you not get this anymore? Does that mean I had better check the dates of the Bisto in my kitchen cupboards? Wouldn't be the first time something went out of date 5 years ago (not as bad as my Grandma with her HP sauce with a Best Before of July 1991!!
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geordie_racer
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we can still get Bisto.
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Papa 3
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Don't forget us.
We were SMASHing.
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geordie_racer
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smash sells over 140 million units a year,
these arent brand names you dont hear of.....
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MT VESSELS
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Best chewy ever
MT jnr
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Papa 3
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| geordie_racer wrote: | smash sells over 140 million units a year,
these arent brand names you dont hear of..... |
You pull me up about a cricket joke, now this reference to a product I haven't heard of in ages, I was only eluding to the little guys of tin, it would seem that you are missing our little contretemps, if you want we can continue, no problem, but if you want to ignore what you consider to be my gaffes then I will do the same for you.
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alfieatkins
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naff naff
remember that?
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geordie_racer
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RENAULT CARS
anyone got a photo?
haven't heard of them in ages.
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Papa 3
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Two for the price of one.
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geordie_racer
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BARCLAYS BANK
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Papa 3
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| geordie_racer wrote: | | BARCLAYS BANK |
One for you..........a dictionary.
Going home now, Bye.
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jennywales
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| ngreggors wrote: |
Can you not get this anymore? Does that mean I had better check the dates of the Bisto in my kitchen cupboards? Wouldn't be the first time something went out of date 5 years ago (not as bad as my Grandma with her HP sauce with a Best Before of July 1991!! |
Yes you can! But it is not at all heavily advertised and the question was What Brand Names don't you Hear Any More, which I assumed meant products that might be still on the market but which are not advertised a whole lot nowadays.
Cherry Blossom Shoe Polish
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MT VESSELS
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| jennywales wrote: |
Yes you can! But it is not at all heavily advertised and the question was What Brand Names don't you Hear Any More, which I assumed meant products that might be still on the market but which are not advertised a whole lot nowadays.
Cherry Blossom Shoe Polish
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Nicely put.
I also thought it was about stuff you had at School as well.
Dont think there are any really right or really wrong answers
MT jnr
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jennywales
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When I was at school we were still eating spam and Digging for Victory (well almost....!) Swan Vestas matches were popular as stakes for poker games at school, where I was taught poker by one of the nuns - Sister Kevin will live forever in my memory.
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lochsong
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Low-end fortified wines are cheap, low-quality fortified wines. In contrast to table wine, which may be enjoyed as an accompaniment to a meal, or high-end fortified wine, enjoyed as an aperitif or digestif, low-end fortified wines are generally used for intoxication purposes. Many people refer to it as "hooch," "street wine," "fortified wine," "bum wine," or "ghetto wine."
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dogsaver
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SPANGLES
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westmeadhawk
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I was gonna say that!
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YAIYAM
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Ajax
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jennywales
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Duraglit
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lochsong
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YAIYAM
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Marathon
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lochsong
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Anejo
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YAIYAM
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Sang Thip Whiskey
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lochsong
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MT VESSELS
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Think we need to book Lochsong into the Priory again.
He seems to be having a relapse.
MT jnr
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Papa 3
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Old English Spangles, everyone a delicious sweet, and all different spangles like coca cola. Remember this guy.
 
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dogsaver
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[quote="Papa 3"]
Old English Spangles, everyone a delicious sweet, and all different spangles like coca cola. Remember this guy.
takes me back to saturday morning pictures at a cinema thats been closed for mor than thirty years
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lochsong
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| MT VESSELS wrote: | Think we need to book Lochsong into the Priory again.
He seems to be having a relapse.
MT jnr |
Just because I like nice rum!!?
I can't even get the stuff over here. 
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awaywardlad
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Anybody remember the very politically incorrect these days..............
"Camp" Coffee
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jennywales
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Papa 3
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| lochsong wrote: | | MT VESSELS wrote: | Think we need to book Lochsong into the Priory again.
He seems to be having a relapse.
MT jnr |
Just because I like nice rum!!?
I can't even get the stuff over here. |
I heard it was a nice rummy.
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dogsaver
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| awaywardlad wrote: | Anybody remember the very politically incorrect these days..............
"Camp" Coffee
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you can still get "camp coffee"
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Travelrug
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| MT VESSELS wrote: | Farah Trousers, Sergio Tachini trackie and a pair of kickers
MT jnr |
I bought a Sergio Tachinni jacket today. Not sure that a 36 year old should be wearing it but I could not resist it. 
I reckon the price I paid today (£45) is around the price I would have paid 15/20 years ago.
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kickingkyle
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| Travelrug wrote: | | MT VESSELS wrote: | Farah Trousers, Sergio Tachini trackie and a pair of kickers
MT jnr |
I bought a Sergio Tachinni jacket today. Not sure that a 36 year old should be wearing it but I could not resist it.
I reckon the price I paid today (£45) is around the price I would have paid 15/20 years ago. |
These are "in" at the moment, my friend has a clothes hsop and due to films like "the Business" and "the firm" there back.
Kappa track suits were the thing when i was at school.
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alfieatkins
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a remember pepe jeans being all the rage back in the day and you got that key fob with them that you could make it all multi coloured, it seemed such a great gimmick at the time
oh well back to 2009....
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Death n Taxes
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Head bags. A triangular bag with rounded corners and a zip off end pocket. Everyone at school had or wanted one.
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jennywales
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| Death n Taxes wrote: | | Head bags. A triangular bag with rounded corners and a zip off end pocket. Everyone at school had or wanted one. |
You mean like this????
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Papa 3
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| jennywales wrote: | | Death n Taxes wrote: | | Head bags. A triangular bag with rounded corners and a zip off end pocket. Everyone at school had or wanted one. |
You mean like this????
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But that is penleguin's dad.
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Death n Taxes
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Not quite but very good.
At first they were all grey and red but then other colours came out and everyone wanted a colour that no one else had. One kid got a white one that he thought was dead cool until someone pointed out that it was in the womens secction of the argos catalogue
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burroughhilllad
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Pendleton's Ice Cream.
Also when I first started using aftershave there was one on the market called Hai Karate.
It smelt like a mixture of gin and paxo.
The bottle informed men that using this product would ensure you would have semi clad models hovering around your groin day and night. They therefore kindly printed instructions on the label as to how you could use martial arts to keep them at bay.
You couldn't make it up.
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Papa 3
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| burroughhilllad wrote: | Pendleton's Ice Cream.
Also when I first started using aftershave there was one on the market called Hai Karate.
It smelt like a mixture of gin and paxo.
The bottle informed men that using this product would ensure you would have semi clad models hovering around your groin day and night. They therefore kindly printed instructions on the label as to how you could use martial arts to keep them at bay.
You couldn't make it up. |
They would, Bag Ladies.
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geordie_racer
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INSTANT WHIP
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suejoe
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| geordie_racer wrote: | | INSTANT WHIP |
Oh how I hated that stuff 
Sue
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geordie_racer
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| suejoe wrote: | | geordie_racer wrote: | | INSTANT WHIP |
Oh how I hated that stuff
Sue |
i think it is no longer available
i preferred it to the main rival, Angel Delight (exept for the butterscotch one) but wonder how many e numbers I was pumping down my throat at the time....
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Papa 3
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| suejoe wrote: | | geordie_racer wrote: | | INSTANT WHIP |
Oh how I hated that stuff
Sue |
You don't have to EAT it.
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Papa 3
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Modern living seems to have put this name into history.
At least I haven't heard the name for a while.
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geordie_racer
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we still have an open fire but I dont use firelighters; lst ones I got were for the BBQ.... were wrapped in foil; tiny tim or something?
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jennywales
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We use Zip firelighters all the time, they are readily available in all local shops and supermarkets, and everyone buys them. This is probably because in our neck of the woods quite a lot of people have solid fuel ranges/woodburners or indeed both. When central heating oil was relatively cheap, a lot of farmhouses were converted to oil-fired ranges - but little by little these are being abandoned for solid fuel (coal or coke or mixed coal and wood) or even all-wood on properties where wood is in large supply. For example, we have not bought wood for our two woodburners for two years now, because I have charge of forestry and see to it that we have wood fuel all winter.
The great think about wood is that it is a renewable resource - where I take down a tree for fuel (and the cwm needs clearing out a bit anyway, for the health of the forest floor, light, encouragement of indigenous species and so on) I always plant another one - and we also have 11 acres under broadleaf planting which was put in 4 years ago. OK, the oaks and ashes won't be harvested for another 60 years or so (in the oak's case probably over 100 years) but still.....Forestry gives you perspective - you are working not for yourself but for the next generation, the one after that, and the one after that, at least!!
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MT VESSELS
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| jennywales wrote: | For example, we have not bought wood for our two woodburners for two years now, because I have charge of forestry and see to it that we have wood fuel all winter.
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Do you have any.........erm..........think the latin name for it...........erm......... conker trees?
MT jnr
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jennywales
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Aesculus hippocastanum....Common horse chestnut.
Oddly enough, although common throughout most of the country, they are pretty rare round here and we don't have a single one. They are an East Asian import, although they are now considered as naturalised. The American branch ( ) of the family are the various Buckeyes, including the Ohio Buckeye after which one of their college football teams is named.
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