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Typical Norfolk family there. Seven brothers, three dads and four cousins.
Still hunting Mammoths in Norfolk.
Typical Norfolk family there. Seven brothers, three dads and four cousins.
Still hunting Mammoths in Norfolk.
What happened to the phone in the end?I found a phone once.
What happened to the phone in the end?
I've never found a £20 but I've found a £10 and two £5 notes (all on different occasions) ... I once found a load of tenners floating around in my Dads driveway but he'd come home pissed up the night before so I had to scoop them up to give to him ... I still prefer finding pennies though, I just like the little round artworks. I also collect the postman bands, especially the red ones which I have to give to my parents when I visit them .. a good tip is to wrap a load around your front door handle in the coldest months for insulation even though it does make you look a bit mental.I pick up pennies and say the little rhyme. I found a £20 note once, day like today, windy and rainy, but early on a Sunday morning so not a soul about.
It got blown down the street after I saw it, can't you run fast when you have to?
I also pick up pens, a legacy from my stores days filling orders, you put your pen down to pick something and wander off without it, so any pen you saw lying about you grabbed.
Elastic bands, thanks post office, useful for keeping fishing lines on spools.
I've also found a couple of weed crushers, from the lads who have a smoke in the alley close by.
I picked one up, thinking it would come in useful for summat, but then knew fear and threw it away.
Get a better grip too, if you've any problems in that respect.a good tip is to wrap a load around your front door handle in the coldest months for insulation even though it does make you look a bit mental.
Exactly .. and a warmer grip as well as less chance of freezing damaging the mechanism .. (same thing works with the door handle arf arf)Get a better grip too, if you've any problems in that respect.
...and he's back.Exactly .. and a warmer grip as well as less chance of freezing damaging the mechanism .. (same thing works with the door handle arf arf)
A slight bit of return for all those times they suck your money in and keep it.30p left in a slot machine at work. Thanks, unknown benefactor!
Yeah, I've lost more money than 30p in that particular machine.A slight bit of return for all those times they suck your money in and keep it.
Hmmm. That sounds like a move to increase inflation!Future of 1p and 2p coins questioned by Treasury
"The document points to surveys that suggest six in 10 of UK 1p and 2p coins are only used once before being saved in a jar or discarded.
In one in 12 of these cases, the coins are thrown in the bin."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43388662
How do you mean ?Hmmm. That sounds like a move to increase inflation!
Because everything will be rounded up to the nearest 5p. Traders will take advantage of that (and us).How do you mean ?
Cheers .. and what's new ? ..Because everything will be rounded up to the nearest 5p. Traders will take advantage of that (and us).
Yeah, yeah, no surprises there.Cheers .. and what's new ? ..
Future of 1p and 2p coins questioned by Treasury
"The document points to surveys that suggest six in 10 of UK 1p and 2p coins are only used once before being saved in a jar or discarded.
In one in 12 of these cases, the coins are thrown in the bin."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43388662
They do at the moment though .. £1.99, £4.99, £9.99 etc etc .. I suppose if and when the pennies go, we'll be buying stuff for ten pounds exactly or £9.95 with any luck.That was my thought exactly. No business is going to round a price down.
They do at the moment though .. £1.99, £4.99, £9.99 etc etc .. I suppose if and when the pennies go, we'll be buying stuff for ten pounds exactly or £9.95 with any luck.
The 5p piece'll go next. Give it a few years.
How American cents and dollars have survived puzzles me. What can you buy for a cent or a dollar?
Mostly young people.Who the flip throws coins in the bin? :axem:
Mostly young people.
It can't be, old geezers only throw old boots .. at Korky The Cat ..I reckon it is more likely to be cranky old geezers, aiming at alley cats.