1971 almost definitely!
remember the 12-sided threepenny bit? sixpence piece? farthing? half-crown?


but I'm not really old anyway --

You're only as old as you feel, SaxFan, and even then it's upto you to decide if you want to act/feel your age (I'm sure you've heard of the ladies who 'choose an age and stick to it' ).

I remember this little ditty from school-

(To the tune of "Twelve Days of Christmas")

"On the 15th February 1971
There's going to be
Decimal Currency
With A hundred New Pennies In a Pound" !!!

thank you Miss Ross

I remember the days before central heating!!!!!!!!

Getting dressed in front of the coal fire.. no duvets back then either, just a big pile of blankets on the bed and a hot-water-bottle (it was Scotland).

Brrrrrrrrrrr

However, I still don't have a dishwasher or a microwave, my computer is still on dial-up and we only have terrestrial t.v. so I still live in the dark-ages LOLOLOL!!! (Sky is the place where clouds are hung out to dry...)

Do you remember those put around to help us to go decimal and metric?

I like "A litre of water's a pint and three-quarters."

I can remember when the old Home Service changed to Radio Four and the Third Programme became Radio Three. They trained the local boy scouts to tune peoples' radios for them if they couldn't find the new frequencies.

The Light Programme became Radio Two

I remember the following:

"In come the dollars, in come the cents
Out go the pounds, shillings and pence
When is the time that the coins will mix?
It's the fourteenth of February 1966"

What country was this referring to? Australia?

I still meaure things in inches, feet, yards, chains, furlongs and miles. Still drink pints, still wigh things in pounds and ounces, and an acre is still imperial not one of those decimal thingies.

And I don't care tuppence ha'penny of people think I'm old fashioned doing so. I know what 8oz of cheese looks like it sounds all wrong asking for 225 grammes.

you probably know what a 'ha'porth of tar' looks like too

Actually given how close to Newmarket I live its a good job I know the length of a furlong, but the closest I'll get to 1000 guineas would be a flutter on the tote.

hope you measure in hands as well!!
and with this summer, cubits might be useful!

of course... fortunately the longest bits of grass were just shy of a cubit when my husband finally got the lawnmower around the garden this year. Its been that damp lately that there has been little opportunity to cut the lawn.

Mind you I've been told that theres a good crop of local plums so I'm going to investigate this week and turn them into jam. Plum Jam... yummy I hate it when people waste the fruit from their trees. It can be jammed or bottled so easily.

Oooh I love home made plum jam! I remember the greengrocers round the road from us cooking beetroot..what a lovely smell! I also carried (very carefully!) eggs home in a brown paper bag.

My nan lived in an old cottage with gas lights on the walls..and the obligatory outside loo! On the wall of the loo, my mum had scratched "Reg called up today 6-6-1946". (Reg is her eldest brother and this is the date he was called up for National Service). My mum would have been 13 at the time.

We got our first ever colour TV in August 1983. My dad bought it so that he could watch the test match...sadly a week later he had passed away with a heart attack.

Well hubby rang, and one of his colleagues has a plum glut so I've just got to check my recipies get the sugar and start cooking. I don't think he's got rid of the empty jam jars.

Then its a case of waiting until January for the Seville Oranges to go Marmalace making.

Mind you in the meantime there's japanese quinces from the garden to turn into quince jelly, blackberrying and if I can find some sloes to steep in gin.

that is just SO WONDERFULLY "old-fashioned" to use the fruits .... great!!

Why is it that everyone recycles their jam jars these days rather than re-use them.

I keep old show boxes too... the box my last pair of shoes came in is currently being transformed into a puppet theatre.

We have shelves and shelves of jam jars in the shed - used for storing left over paint, nails, paint brushes. My mum has a cupboard of them for when she makes jam at the end of summer, and my Nan as well.

Shoe boxes are handy as well - I'm currently using them to store smaller items inside larger boxes for when we move house. As a generalisation, we don't throw anything away that could be used again, and what we can't use is recycled. Waste not want not I suppose.

Hey!! well said Miss Ross