Well there is one more left in the packet...

Thanks! I was so busy trying to take a picture of the sunset that I almost missed it - luckily I looked behind me!

Have done, but microwave works too. Make a cut in the pointy, fluffy bit at the top so it doesn't explode and ping it for 10 to 20 seconds. Avoid the steam and peel off the skin and the fluffy inner skin which is really bitter. But don't eat conkers (horse chestnuts), they're poisonous!

More thrillingly these are the edible variety of chestnut rather than conkers. I do love a conker though, I put them on a shelf or windowsill to ward off spiders. Don't think the spider thing actually works but a conker adds a certain something to the decor!

Biplane I accidentally took a picture of - not a speck of dust!

Yeah this is one of those long-standing mysteries which I suspect will never be solved!

Thanks! Not sure, 30 or 40 years maybe. It wasn't planted as such, just turned up in the hedge. Thinking about it, the apples used to be plain green when the tree was younger.