The Anonymous Widower

Decimalisation

On Drive on BBC Radio 5 Live, they got talking about decimalisation. I sent them my four pennies-worth

My eldest son was in the births in The Times for the 20^th July 1969, the day Apollo 11  landed on the moon.  Incidentally, that day the paper carried a report on decimalisation, which would happen on February 15^th 1971 and metrication, which was to be completed by 1984. The first happened on time and I’m still waiting for the second.

I suspect I’ll be long dead before we do the sane and sensible thing and metricate.

March 27, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | News, World | Apollo 11, Metrication