tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post1478219090242124383..comments2024-01-06T10:36:03.652-05:00Comments on The Word Guild: More of the Good Ol' Days BY SUSAN HARRISGlynishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15621548333351709607noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post-44153806734224661092020-07-11T18:44:24.842-04:002020-07-11T18:44:24.842-04:00Thanks Susan. I'm sure your childhood memories...Thanks Susan. I'm sure your childhood memories of your years in T&T will at times be warmly wistful and evocative, as many of mine of England and Scotland are. But, truth is that I've spent way more time in Canada than I had in the UK. ~~+~~Peter Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529992196266271463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post-83920481459843645902020-06-27T23:14:04.635-04:002020-06-27T23:14:04.635-04:00You can never get enough press, Peter. That's ...<br />You can never get enough press, Peter. That's a fact.<br />I loved your history lesson and it brought back the stories my mother told us. I remember spending the "big ol' British penny (which was two-cents) in Trinidad when I was a kid. The penny could buy so many treats at school. Because of colonization the imperial system of measures and money were used in T&T. I don't remember the other denominations as it was phased out when I was in standard one or so (I think), but to this day my mom refers to the shilling and a bob (bob is the twenty-five cents piece). We then moved to the metric system. (Sorry for the "I think's" as I haven't checked those out factually yet but I will. We started school at ages 3- 4 so even a year buying red mango and sugar plums seems like a lot of time to spend the penny). I will look for another story for you, Peter. Wishing you a wonderful Canada Day. Susan Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371504335948174199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213977381458736343.post-43398501417683898972020-06-23T16:19:13.566-04:002020-06-23T16:19:13.566-04:00Well Susan, you're giving 'You-know-Who...Well Susan, you're giving 'You-know-Who' a lot more press than he's had for a while - especially, since I'm not submitting posts to the blog myself, these days - and more than I deserve! (Smile) But thank you for your generous spirit. <br />So much in this story about the copper penny reflects my experience in the UK, in terms of what you could buy with it.<br />Our currency was not dollars, quarters and nickels, dimes and cents, but was pounds, shillings and pence (and several other coins in between). However, our pennies were large copper coins almost the diameter of our Canadian toonie. <br />At two-hundred and forty of those pennies to the pound, a bunch of them in your pocket in those days was a lot of weight. <br />In 1970 the UK currency went decimal, with 100 pennies to the pound. The new British penny was now shrunk physically to the size of a Canadian cent, but overnight one new wee penny was worth 2.4 times as much of the big ol' penny. <br /><br />Thanks for tweaking my nostalgia button! ~~+~~Peter Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529992196266271463noreply@blogger.com