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- Ratdog
- Born in Sussex, Moved to Dorset, Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, Washington DC, Virginia, Kansas, Virginia (again), Maryland, California, Wales, Dorset (again), Virginia (again). If you can follow that you see I have emigrated 3 times. I really love the UK and this site is about that, but I have lived more time in the USA. While in the USA I have done many interesting hikes and the US has lots of natural history and a great many parks, The Appellation trail, the Shenandoah, the Blue Ridge, the Grand Canyon Utah’s great parks, Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, none of them stand up the diversity of the British coastline, and in recent years I have been coming back more and more to explore them. The more I explore the British coast, and enjoy the natural right to be able to hike along it, the more I want to do it, so this website explores my dream.
Inches? what are those? I seem to remember teacher walloping us with something that had inches on it! Ah, the good old days.
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Ha, your right, we still use gallons, and feet and inches, although some of those military types talk of Clicks.
ReplyDeleteBTW British roadsigns are in MPH and road distances are in Miles, but petrol is in liters so your only half way there.
Do you rate cars on Miles per liter?
You're absolutely right. We don't seem to be able to do anything right these days. We only do half a job. Engineers use metric, builders use both metric and imperial. Car speedo's have both. And to confuse it all we still like to convert everything back to imperial just because we can. 90p for a loaf of bread thats 19 shillings in old money, i remember before decimalisation that it was 1s and 6d blah blah blah
ReplyDeleteHey I used to do a paper round and was delivering to an old folks home when we went through decimization. I had to explaind their bills to them on old money every week.
ReplyDeleteWe still say, penny, tuppence..... elevenpnse, twelve "P", becauce the old money never went above 11p
Hey but now im nearly an "Old Fart" so I better be careful
Hey, Just read you're "about me". Are you on the run from something or somebody?
ReplyDeleteHahahaha on the run from somebody?? LOL. I think the shifts back and forth were more about loving England (which this blog is all about) but the exchange rate and job market being shite (which, thankfully, this blog is not about.) As his son, that was my experience, at least. But I have to thank you, as considering my father "on the run from something or somebody" gave me a good laugh :)
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