Dick Strawbridge mocks overprotective culture as he shares wishes for children: ‘That’s the way things are now’

Escape to the Chateau star Dick Strawbridge issued a savage remark towards children growing up in modern-day society – and how they are overprotected.

Strawbridge and his wife Angel Adoree recently returned to their podcast Dick & Angel: Chat…eau after taking a break across the summer.

During their most recent episode, the couple discussed the upcoming autumn season as they prepare to head on tour once again.

Looking forward to the upcoming season – which means they are preparing their home and garden for the winter – Strawbridge touched on a beloved hobby he enjoyed as a child.

Revealing to Adoree that he wishes to teach their children – Arthur, 11, and Dorothy, 10 – how to play, he said: “In the workshop.

“If you look hanging on the ceiling there are conkers from about six years ago that have been hardening and you didn’t realise that.

“You will find there is a little bunch of conkers hanging up in there on white strings that are there to harden off.

“What we used to do is put them in mum’s airing cupboard at the back so the next year you had a hard conker, there were all these things you did to make the perfect conker, champion conker.”

Wanting to get in on the action, Adoree quipped: “What we need to do then is we need to go and get the conkers and work out how we make them hard.

“It will not be a fair game if you use your hardened conkers,” leaving Strawbridge to agree: “We are going to have a fresh conker championship, use real conkers.

“But then if you think about it, the big big thing is putting a hole in the conker neatly without making a crack.

“I don’t think we’re allowed to play conkers with the children unless we put them in protective eye covering, gloves, give them ear defenders and a suit of armour.

“Because that is the modern way of doing things isn’t it?”

Offering up a resolution, Adoree noted: “I don’t think that… Remember France is 10 to 15 years behind them kind of things, I don’t think that applies in France, I genuinely don’t.”

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Not able to move past the point, Strawbridge continued: “Yeah but what if somebody knows we are playing conkers and sees that we haven’t put the children in full-body armour?

“Can you imagine the trouble we’d be in!” he laughed leaving Adoree to add: “We would have to just take the wrath of whatever happens.”