Brenda wrote: "I mostly cook by guessing so it's more of what it looks like than how much it weighs!"
That reminded me of just after decimalisation, when one old lady said "But if they only sell butter in 250 gramme packs, I won't be able to use any of my recipes in ounces any more!" I'm of that generation who learned imperial units and L.s.d. at school, had to learn to use decimal measurements and money when they were introduced, and are happily bi-lingual now. I still translate prices back to shillings and pence now, just to express my horror at the increase since I was younger - HOW much? One pound 50 pence for a cup of coffee? That used to cost 3 old pence (= a quarter of a shilling = a quarter of 5 new pence = 1.25 new pence)! All right, it's a long time since I was younger <VBG> - that was in the early 1960s. I buy fabric for patchwork - it's 44 inches wide, and I buy it by the metre. Margery. ================================================ [email protected] in North Hertfordshire, UK ================================================ To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected].
