ITD’s conker nuts came out in force last week to contest the third annual conker challenge.

It was a tough competition with more than 30 ITD staff vying for the Conker King title. Some very fine conkers were collected by Mr. Hale.

“In England you have to go to some effort to get good conkers because everyone wants to play. But here it’s not that popular so I found some very fine conkers on the ground” said Mr. Hale

After a brief demonstration of the art of conking from Richard Wilson and Rob Hale, and a few cucumber sandwiches for good luck, the nuts began to fly. Luckily injuries were limited to the odd sore knuckle and bruised ego.

In the end it was an Aussie who emerged the victor. Senior analyst Brendan Heywood (pictured below with web architect Lynda Creedy) managed to crack the conkers of all opponants to take home the trophy.

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