|
Post by Marianne Regretit on Jun 19, 2006 15:45:03 GMT
Sorry Late, my friend, but my brain doesn't do numbers - I think I was at the loo when god was handing the numeracy gene out - ah well!
|
|
|
Post by revmichael on Jun 19, 2006 15:47:44 GMT
3,674 because I can't be bothered to try to work it out (so that number's as good as any other in my book - not that I carry a book, well, not a maths book anyway). Antoher thing, can you tell me why my children accuse me of talking a lot of drivvel?
|
|
|
Post by mildew on Jun 19, 2006 16:22:32 GMT
x2 x3 etc
|
|
|
Post by Late Afternoon on Jun 19, 2006 19:37:12 GMT
nice try Mildew but no
|
|
|
Post by Late Afternoon on Jun 20, 2006 22:07:13 GMT
So have you all given up?
|
|
|
Post by Nesta Vipers on Jun 20, 2006 22:48:23 GMT
yes
|
|
|
Post by MadMaryPridmore on Jun 21, 2006 4:56:46 GMT
24 - doubles
|
|
|
Post by MadMaryPridmore on Jun 21, 2006 4:57:09 GMT
sorry - i meant 48 - doubles (it's early)
|
|
|
Post by MadMaryPridmore on Jun 21, 2006 16:04:35 GMT
Has Late gone on holiday?
|
|
|
Post by Late Afternoon on Jun 21, 2006 21:58:27 GMT
no no no, I'm around, I have a bit of explaining to do, are you sitting comfy, then I will begin. I deleted my question by mistake so I will give it again, with the answer. 1/4, 1/2, 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, ? Answer is... it's the old £ S P money system, farthing= 1/4, 1/2= half penny & so on so the answer is.........................?
|
|
|
Post by revmichael on Jun 22, 2006 8:28:02 GMT
30 - I think that is what half a crown was. And weren't they heavy in the pockets?
I didn't think I could do maths questions, but I see, after your explanation that it wasn't maths at all, well not much maths).
Thank you. I'll steal that one.
|
|
|
Post by Marianne Regretit on Jun 22, 2006 10:22:00 GMT
What's a half crown?
|
|
|
Post by MadMaryPridmore on Jun 22, 2006 10:34:43 GMT
Good one Late - any more where that came from?
|
|
|
Post by Late Afternoon on Jun 22, 2006 11:56:28 GMT
Half a crown was my pocket money for a week when I was a wee lad, out of that I had to bye a six penny savings stamp to stick in my post office stamp book, the rest I squanderd on shurbet dabs, flying sawcers and gob stoppers.
|
|
|
Post by MadMaryPridmore on Jun 22, 2006 12:00:33 GMT
Mine went up from 2 shillings to half a crown when I was in my teens. I had to buy my own tennis equipment out of my Post Office savings. £7 it cost for a Slazenger racket and all the stuff that went with it. XX
|
|
|
Post by revmichael on Jun 22, 2006 13:08:09 GMT
Half-a-crown was what many of my Christiams presents were during the war when toys were few and far between. On Christmas morning when I went into my mum and dad's bed I would open my stocking and quite a few of the small number of presents (we were very poor - sigh - well, we were, and so were all our friends) were small brown envelopes which each contained two and six in a silvery coin Sometimes I had as many as 8 which, if I remember rightly, came to £1
O happy days!
But does anyone remember what their first wage was?
I started work at the age of 16 in a music library in Dean Street in Soho, London W.1. My rail fare was £13 for a three month season ticket from Edenbridge Town to Victoria station and my boss decided to up his normal starting wage to
£3 a week.
[I bet your youngsters are sighing when we hear us old foggies go on about the good old days)
|
|
|
Post by MadMaryPridmore on Jun 22, 2006 14:23:21 GMT
My first wage was £2.50 a week, but because it was before decimalisation, it was £2-10s-0d, and I had to pay half to my mum (mam then) for board and lodgings. XX
|
|
|
Post by Late Afternoon on Jun 22, 2006 15:08:43 GMT
I was an apprentice painter working at a garage in Tunbridge Wells, £2:15s a week, it's been down hill ever since.
|
|
|
Post by Marianne Regretit on Jun 22, 2006 16:25:21 GMT
I started work in 1989 on £11,000 per annum. I had just finished being a student so was drowning in riches. I remember being sent to a conference in Guernsey the second week I was there and my boss said i needed a cocktail dress - I had to ring my mam up to find out what one was as I lived in jeans at the time.
|
|
|
Post by Rose_Petal on Jun 22, 2006 22:23:22 GMT
It was before me time wernt born yet
|
|