Archev's adventures in the Berlingo

[GaryMG4]

Was that a new ha'penny or an old ha'penny (the size of a new 2p coin)?

Perhaps both, for full and half choke.

 

[T1 Terry]

Perhaps both, for full and half choke.

What is a 2p coin, could it be the metric version of the term "to spend a penny"

T1 Terry

 

[MG Clive]

What is a 2p coin, could it be the metric version of the term "to spend a penny"

T1 Terry

Today, spending a penny in the UK costs at least 20p.

 

[T1 Terry]

Today, spending a penny in the UK costs at least 20p.

That's some bladder, thankfully toilets are still plentiful and free in Aust ...... although, as a very young kid, maybe 4yrs old, I do remember my mother having to buy a ticket to take me into the toilets .... I guess that is where the term "a pennies worth of poo ticket" ..... or it referred to having to buy sheets of toilet paper .....
Dollar and cents were introduced in Aust on 14th Feb 1966, I can still remember the jingle from the advertising campaign .... I would have been 10 yrs old then .....
At school, they didn't teach us anything about how to do money sums in pounds, shillings and pence, they couldn't see the point in confusing us with the old system, only to have to forget it all when money went metric. The lowest denomination coin here is 5 cents, the lowest note, $5, $1 and $2 are coins, no longer notes, and they buy about as much as I remember 1 shilling and 2 shillings could buy

T1 Terry

 

[Ian Key]

Was that a new ha'penny or an old ha'penny (the size of a new 2p coin)?

A pre-decimal ha'penny.

 

[emmrecs]

Today, spending a penny in the UK costs at least 20p

In many places it's more like 40p!

 

[T1 Terry]

In many places it's more like 40p!

What are the people who haven't got the 40p supposed to do, hold onto it or something .... that is just crazy

T1 Terry

 

[Everest]

Sadly, these days, in the UK most of the van drivers seem to just p1$$ in the layby and leave paper and rubbish everywhere

 

[Archev]

Apparently the four new type 4 superchargers are now available in Tyndrum and are open to all.

 

[Archev]

Oops might be a bit too soon - still mentions “under construction “ ??
Premature e charge elation ?

 

[Archev]

I’m jealous. My son’s off camping with the Ineos again.

 

[T1 Terry]

I doubt too many up and down the Australian East Coast or even around the Victorian coast or Great Ocean Rd, would consider driving down something like that at the moment.
A cyclone still working its way down the coast from Qld, fires in Victoria trapping holiday makers yet again, and a deluge along the Great Ocean Rd the transported cars from driveways and shop parking lots, out to sea. One house washed into what would normally be a creek while the owners looked on, watching it being destroyed.

T1 Terry

 

[Archev]

Son’s just finished dinner and enjoying a beer.