Re: afba website

In message <egd063pbjqki2r578vtqdapvvjmf0hrhv2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ken Butler 
<ken@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:10:45 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>*****ver*  No, centigrade!  That is about 70 degrees in old money, I
>>think.
>
>Sounds right (68?). Not that I ever had anything to do with old-money
>temperatures; I think the BBC, Bert Foord and all, had just changed to
new
>money by the time I came along.

Bert?  I thought he was the new boy, about a fortnight ago.  We had 
Laurie West in my day.

http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/halcyondays/1960s/weather.php
>
>These days, I occasionally chance upon an American weather forecast
saying
>something like "temperatures today in the 60s", and I have to work out
what
>that means. Canadians work with the metric system, with temperatures at
>least.
>
I'm stuck between the two.  Lynne insists weather should be metric, 
whilst I still think in pre decimal degrees, but, as I have to ask 
permission to wear the trousers in this house, I'm slowly being 
metricated.
-- 
Geep, whatever happened to the farthing girl