Nostalgia isn't what it used to be Paul! But...I might bump into 'Big Lou' down our alley, and I still owe him ten bob* from a 3-card brag game in 1955!
* '10 bob' was 50 'new' pence, or about US 1 dollar. You could go out with that, go to the cinema, get completely squiffy later on a few jars down the rub-a-dub-dub, smoke twenty snout, buy a fish and chips supper, wend an unsteady-route home via the duckpond and wake the entire household when you dropped the change all over your bedroom floor at 2am! What's happened to our money? Time was if you had 5 shillings in coppers in your trousers pocket you had a job staying upright!
Mrs B. says; "I've told you a million times to stop exaggerating!"
Alan
[This message has been edited by Alan Belson (edited 10-07-2005).]
