Pounds, Shillings & Pence
20Aug11
Saturday morning and many of you will be off to the shops. Not me I’m at home getting my head round the new decimal coinage with the latest acquisition to the Weir HQ board game library.
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Tags: Board Games, Coinage, Decimal, Game
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dig your fins 
Hello ,
My name is Catherine, I’ve been reading your blog, I’m impressed by its high quality and clean presentation, I like the fun way you write about art, toys and games (well you have a nice variety of subjects actually hehe). Enjoyed reading your reviews and articles a lot, good job!
That is why I would love to add your blog in the blog directory that I admin. It’s a high web traffic, Page Rank 5 blog directory named Blogdire, http://www.blogdire.com, it’s visit count grows exponentially every day and has high quality gained by listing great blogs like yours, because it does not have advertisement nor pop-ups.
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In exchange of becoming part of the directory, all I ask is a simple link to my site, I can assure you, the operation is extremely simple and there is no money involved.
The idea is that you send me the title with a little description of Dig your Fins and I’ll add it to the category you choose at Blogdire, it will appear with a preview picture and new posts shown on the main page. On your side, I only ask for a link to http://www.Games21.com with a tiny button of your choice: http://www.games21.com/buttons/new/ or any of this text anchors: Online Games, Free Online Games, Games or Play Games, in your blogroll, links or at the bottom of your sidebar.
Let me know if you are interested and what you think.
Kind regards,
Cathy
Thanks for the offer but no thanks.
DW x
An excellent game! I was once told that older people were encouraged to learn rhymes to help them make mental calculations when shopping:
“A litre of water is a pint and three-quarter”
Two and a quarter pounds of jam makes about a kilogram”
I bet they didn’t do this with the Euro, eh?
I bet they didn’t either which is a shame because although rhymes to convey such information are a bit twee – they do kind of work eh ? And yes it is an excellent game – I’m just wondering whether the replica curency will be accepted in my local shop when my funds run low at the end of the month.
DW x
This game looks like a real hoot! I’d play for the drawings alone, although I’d get completely flummoxed trying to calculate in pounds, shillings and pence. As for calculation rhymes, I learned “a pint’s a pound the world around” as a kid. But I guess that doesn’t refer to a pint of anything costing a pound. (Gee can’t believe you didn’t take Cathy up on her offer to link to her (I’m sure) totally bogus blog.)
Indeed quite how anyone worked in imperial I’ll never know – as for a “a pint’s a pound the world around” – according to http://www.pintprice.com/ (yes there is a website for everything) a pint in Greenland would cost you £7.35, so you may need to update your rhyme a little . . .
And Cathy – I was mainly bemused regarding the perhaps not entirely ironic name of her blog directory site : www . blog dire . com . . . I think that’s considered damning with faint praise . . .
DW x
7 pounds for a pint of beer in Greenland? It better be really good beer. I was actually taught that the saying meant a pint of liquid weighed a pound, but could it really be true? It was also confusing as a kid to also know that a pound was money. And what’s with # meaning pound? But speaking of phrases, “damning with faint praise” was another one I heard growing up, but don’t hear much these days. It’s a good one though. FYI, I just posted more Hindes!
Gah – should have worked out that straight away – a pint is a pound in weight makes much more sense than my interpretation. Some great Hindes you’ve posted – I don’t think I have any of the ones you featured in the latest post – nice way of collecting them together, I may steal the idea for my next post which is way overdue.
DW x
Glad you enjoyed the Hindes; amazing that you didn’t have any of them. Looking forward to your next post of Hindes (which I agree is overdue), especially if you put together a collection based on pointing, or colors of outfits, or some other Hinde-ish categorization.