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Re: Grand National 2016
[Re: fish5133]
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9th Apr 2016 7:17pm
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Whose buying the drinks and whose frying the horse burgers.
Remember the days as a kid when pa would give you all a 5 or 10p bet on a horse and you would watch with great expectations and laugh or commiserate when your brother or sisters horse fell and how gutted you were when yours tumbled. Or how excited to get 1s 6d for your horse getting placed. Simple pleasures.
Wondering as a kid what the green tent was for! 4 so far this year. Agh but they died doing what they loved. Becoming a bit of a bloodsport... I remember as a nipper having a sixpence each way bet on a outsider named Oxo. I forget if it won or placed and I was over the moon. Funny how some things stay with you forever!
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Re: Grand National 2016
[Re: snowshoes]
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10th Apr 2016 7:30am
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Was that a 'shiny sixpence' Snowshoes ? Many people referred to a sixpence as a 'shiny sixpence' , do you remember that ?
We could do a lot with a sixpence. A bag of chips, a swap for a tooth, (tooth fairy), 6d block of Cadbury's Dairy Milk or 2 x 3d blocks or 6 x 1d ones, 2 x bags of Golden Wonder Crips, or 2d change on a bag of Smith's crisps, a bottle of Coca-Cola, and 2 loose cigarettes (Park Drive).
For those who don't know ,work it out. 2 x 6d = 12d = 1 shilling = today's 5p.
No fatalities yesterday, which is pleasing to know.
Last edited by granny; 10th Apr 2016 7:38am.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Grand National 2016
[Re: ludwigvan]
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10th Apr 2016 1:15pm
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...and halfpennies. 4 halfpennies to a 1 penny. What could we buy with one of those ? We could probably have backed 'Foinavon' . Correction to 12p = 1 shilling.. 1 shilling = todays 10p (before Chris gives me a ticking off !
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Grand National 2016
[Re: ludwigvan]
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10th Apr 2016 2:05pm
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Good Lord, getting muddled beyond belief. Yes, Lud, thanks for the update.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Toyah . .
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