Fuddland

After checking with a few friends, I’m fast coming to the conclusion that, far from being something that every child has done since the dawn of Man, the splitting of the end of a recently-fallen sycamore seed, and the subsequent sticking of said seed to one’s nose, may well have been something that only the youths of Neasden who were around in the early Eighties did.

Please tell me someone else did this when they were young?

#1

Kav | 2005 / 08 / 18 – 11:12

Nope, you’re a freak.

#2

srh | 2005 / 08 / 18 – 15:49

You know, I never did this either but thought I’d keep quiet in case I was the freakish one…

#3

David | 2005 / 08 / 18 – 17:42

This is just too devastating.

#4

Adam Sampson | 2005 / 08 / 18 – 22:55

Yes, I remember doing this while growing up near Sevenoaks in the 80s (not that I would have thought about it before seeing your post!). Don’t worry, you’re not the only one…

#5

David | 2005 / 08 / 18 – 23:04

Re #4: Hurrah! Now everyone else besides us is a freak! Or at the very least, the two of us have cancelled Kav and srh out. :)

#6

Missiedith | 2005 / 08 / 22 – 08:52

I never did this as a child, but my russian teacher once showed it to me. Apparently it’s popular there too, to the extent that the tree species is known as Clown… because obviously clowns walk around with strange things on their noses.

Now that I think about this it sounds rather unlikely. Maybe the teacher was just trying to think of a neat way to get me to remember the word. But either way, I’ve heard of it.

#7

David | 2005 / 08 / 22 – 11:03

Re #6: Kudos to your Russian teacher. :)

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