WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?..

...I walk my dogs around a local park twice a day, and there are lots of horse chestnut trees all around the park. It doesn't seem too long ago that I would expect to see dozens of little 'uns, throwing sticks up into the trees, trying to dislodge the chestnuts, so that they could go 'conkering'.

I have been dismayed over this last couple of weeks, to see little piles of chestnuts, fallen from the tree, and going to rot on the pathway.


(please excuse the picture quality - it was taken with my phone)

Where are the little, bratty kids? Why don't they want to try and crack each other's knuckles open with those beautifully polished little gems? Or poke someone's eye out while throwing their sticks up into the trees?

I blame modern technology.

T'internet is an evil thing.