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Good morning everyone

 

-2C outside here at present, forecast to become a bit warmer and cloudy today. No fog.

 


Yogi, that client meeting was very straightforward I;ve known her for years through church, her tax return is the simplest of any of my clients, I'd done the work and she had come to sign off her return. So the meeting was 10% work, 90% chatting

 

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro

A couple of days aho there was this news story on the BBC site about a photographer who was walking on Cleeve Hill near Cheltenham when she saw what she thought might have been a proposal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-51169223

and today, an update:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-51179346

Cleeve Hill is the highest point in Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds. It's the highest point between there and London though as it's on relatively flat ground (Cleeve Common) it's impossible to see London.

El Loro

Moonie, I'm glad you've sorted out your bits and bobs

 

For those who don't know where that phrase comes from, it's a relic from pre-decimalisation coins. There used to be a threepence coin which was often called a thruppenny bit. Originally it was in silver but later in brass as a 12 sided coin (rather like our Β£1 coin used to be). There were other small coins such as the sixpenny bit. There was also a shilling coin, often called a bob - that became our 5p coin, originally the same size as a shilling until it shrank.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Moonie, I'm glad you've sorted out your bits and bobs

 

For those who don't know where that phrase comes from, it's a relic from pre-decimalisation coins. There used to be a threepence coin which was often called a thruppenny bit. Originally it was in silver but later in brass as a 12 sided coin (rather like our Β£1 coin used to be). There were other small coins such as the sixpenny bit. There was also a shilling coin, often called a bob - that became our 5p coin, originally the same size as a shilling until it shrank.

Me too El  

El, I have a set of the old coins including the old half crown all neatly under plastic film 

Moonie

For those not old enough for pre-decimalisation times, 12 pennies equalled 1 shilling and 20 shillings equalled Β£1. The coins I remember from my childhood were:

The farthing (a quarter of a penny) which was discontinued a long time ago. That was a tiny coin, notable for having a picture of a wren on one side.
The halfpenny or ha'penny
Penny
Tuppence
The threepence and the sixpenny as mentioned above
The shilling and the two shilling
The half crown coin (which was 2 shillings and 6 pence). That was the largest coin in circulation. There was a crown coin but those were for commemorative purposes rather than for circulation, as were a half-sovereign (= 10 shillings or two crowns), a sovereign (= Β£1), a half guinea (10 shillings and 6 pence), a guinea (Β£1 and 1 shilling) and even a Β£5 coin - I never came across those.
Going back in history there was also a groat which equalled 4 pennies so a tuppence used to be called a half=groat.

The pre-decimal bank notes included the ones we have now and the 10 shilling note and the Β£1 note.

El Loro

Re the Father Brown television series. Sometimes episodes show a newspaper called Gloucester News. That's an error - the actual name of the printed newspaper was The Citizen. There was also the Journal but that was weekly.

 

In the latest series, the episode with Flambeau, there was a shot of somewhere supposedly an external view of Gloucester Museum with a man walking down a flight of steps to the road where Father Brown and Flambeau were waiting in a car. No idea where that was, but certainly not of the museum - there are no flight of steps there and the museum hasn't been relocated from the 1950s.

El Loro
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

Moonie, I update the tiddlers re the swan and cygnet and they are very happy 

El, I also have a set pf pre-decimalisation coins.

I’m glad to say, after 5 weeks, my back is almost back to normal.

Hope everyone has had a good day.


Aww that’s lovely Yogi 

That extra special good news Yogi 

Have you had a good day?

Yogi19
Yogi19 posted:
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

Moonie, I update the tiddlers re the swan and cygnet and they are very happy 

El, I also have a set pf pre-decimalisation coins.

I’m glad to say, after 5 weeks, my back is almost back to normal.

Hope everyone has had a good day.


Aww that’s lovely Yogi 

That extra special good news Yogi 

Have you had a good day?

My day has been fine fankoo 

Moonie
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

Moonie, I update the tiddlers re the swan and cygnet and they are very happy 

El, I also have a set pf pre-decimalisation coins.

I’m glad to say, after 5 weeks, my back is almost back to normal.

Hope everyone has had a good day.


Aww that’s lovely Yogi 

That extra special good news Yogi 

Have you had a good day?

My day has been fine fankoo 

Glad to hear it πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—

Yogi19
Yogi19 posted:
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

Moonie, I update the tiddlers re the swan and cygnet and they are very happy 

El, I also have a set pf pre-decimalisation coins.

I’m glad to say, after 5 weeks, my back is almost back to normal.

Hope everyone has had a good day.


Aww that’s lovely Yogi 

That extra special good news Yogi 

Have you had a good day?

My day has been fine fankoo 

Glad to hear it πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—

Fankoo πŸ€— πŸ€— πŸ€— 

Moonie

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