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Autumn, season of conkers and new boots

The season’s bright brilliant days send the blood rushing through the veins

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

Each year when I see the first conker of the autumn I think: fire up the ancestral ovens! This incendiary thought comes from the Ronald Searle cartoon in Nigel Molesworth’s How to be Topp of a sooty retainer sliding a tray of the young master’s conkers into a brick oven.

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