Don’t cut his legs off! 😱

Absolutely - I was thinking of bachelors buttons or suchlike
And you’d be thrifty indeed to hang onto your threpenny/thruppeny bits 😂

Doesn’t look bristly enough to be thistly 🤔
I have a jar of old coins somewhere

Sounds likely 👍

Interesting: OED gives liquorice as the main form and licorice as an alternative so I wonder why that’s the one I know; possibly Richmal Crompton uses that spelling in William books

You must have enormous Christmas puddings if you put crowns in them 😂 We had sixpences in ours

Good idea
Now I’ll have to find a threpenny bit with flower

I have a piggy measuring tape: you wind it back in with his tail

*sighs*

With the Travel Cone filled van outside and Bins in attendance

😱

No I didn’t, because I wanted to say they had straws made of licorice in them and autocorrect doesn’t recognise that as a word 🤔

I just said sherbet fountain to Soapy - this is getting too confusing 😵‍💫

Haunted by Cap’n?

Or a three pronged flower

Cadbury’s chocolate bar for tuppence

Imagine what it was like doing arithmetic in pounds, shillings and pence: nowadays it’s all in bases of 10, but then there were 3 columns (£ s d) with the d column base 12 (pence in shilling) and the s column base 20 (shillings in pound) 🤪

We’re doing old fashioned sweets and pre-decimal currency in Stiles’ corner of BS 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Oh no they didn’t - that was farthings, which were 1/4 of a penny 😈

Soapy has just explained it’s a sort of slot machine that delivers random “eggs” with sweets or toys inside them 🤷‍♀️

I Must Go to Chipping Norton Tomorrow and Find One 🏃🏻‍♀️

Sheep are sold in guineas at auction

And florin was old fashioned - we said two shilling piece, like threepenny (thrupenny) bit, but never sixpenny bit, just sixpence
Autocorrect is going mad with these 🤣

Technically, but we’d have said 5 shillings, and anyway they weren’t common currency only issued on special Royal occasions

WHY HAVE I NEVER SEEN ONE? Is it random what you get if you put a coin in a slot?

Half crowns (2s 6d) were the best - big and heavy - much better than 10s notes which were worth 4 times as much (half a £) 😂

Er, thanks, very jolly 😂
Soapy is trying to explain to me what an egg machine is: I am feeling old and foxed 😵‍💫

I can safely say I have never seen anything like that (marbles?) though there used to be chocolate dispensers in my youth at railway stations - but why eggs? And why Japan?
Remember: it was I who didn’t know about releasing supermarket trolleys with £1 coins 🤪

Our pocket money every week was the number of pennies of our age, so when I was 6 I got 6d and when I was 12 I got a shilling
At 13 it went up to 1s 6d as I was a teenager (that’s 7 & 1/2p 😂)

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