Hehehehehehe! Just got my latest parcel from Croft Mill:<snip> ===%<---------
They were a quid each!
I'm assuming thats good....but how many quid to the euro? (or dollar?) or is it how many euros (or dollars) to the quid? For all that...how many quid to the pound? While we are at it, what is a shilling? Bob? Farthing? Crown?
What I'm really getting at is "How great a deal was this?"
ps: for all the metric users I forgot to tell you my granddaughter weighed 4 kilos and was 50cm at birth...
Euros seem to be about equal to dollars, and they are about 1.60 to the £ (quid). The fabric is of a quality that £8 a metre would not be a bad price. I think the panels were made into posh togs for quite a high class high street establishment.
Congrats on the baby cherub! :) Mine was 8lbs 7 oz or thereabouts, but that was almost 10 years ago... He's bigger now!
Mike:
1971 it was. Simplified pay packets, but lots of shopkeepers took it as an opportunity to up prices... Same thing happened in a lot of places that went over to the Euro. Doesn't mean they were bad ideas, just that some folk got greedy and soured it all for the rest! Typical of the human race, really.
To those of us who still remember the 'old money' (and this was not the first time the UK had changed its money!), 'fifteen bob' still sounds a lot more than 75 pence ever will, but the two phrases represent the same amount of cash!
tanners,
Aye, those were the days! But so many of our sayings, songs and nursery rhymes have references to old money in them - are there any new money songs about?
phnip
Right.
'I've got sixpence, jolly, jolly sixpence to last me all my life. I've tuppence to spend and tuppence to lend and tuppence to send home to my wife.'
I grew up (in the US and A) with a Scottish father and a mother whose parents were from London. I heard those songs and nursery rhymes.
'Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny a ha-penny will do. If you haven't got a ha-penny, then God bless you!'
Jean M.
Click on Sayings and Songs in the site I gave Mike,
'Loadsa Money'? It's an 80's catchprase.
I never learned metrics LOL. They tried to force it on us here in the US in the 70's. I was defiant! :) Sadly, I am having to teach myself now due to some of the patterns I sew with. Hindsight is 20/20.
Vicki
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