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Title: 40p!!!!
Post by: Aidy on February 15, 2021, 16:20
Went to get a sack of chicken feed, gone up 40p  :ohmy:
Called into local GC to get another bottle of Maxicrop.... Gone up £1 in less than a month  :ohmy:

Is this covid?? seems a little excessive to me, maybe I been married to me Yorkie lass for too long  :D
At least the subs on the plot are the same as last year :lol:
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: Aunt Sally on February 15, 2021, 16:59
Gone up by 8 shillings  :ohmy:  Shocking, Aidy  ::)

‘D’ day 1971 today  ;)
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: Growster... on February 15, 2021, 18:02
Far too much!

Aunt Sally, I was on a rugby tour to The Hague that weekend, and so had to battle with a) a headache, b) a change from pounds shillings and pence to guilders, and c) a change from both sorts of money to pounds and pence, all in seventy-two hours!

I still have a box of matches and a tin which used to hold those fabulous long cigars, much loved by TV detectives way back then...

Hardly chicken feed. I know, but a story about the big change, nevertheless!
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: Aidy on February 15, 2021, 19:46
Gone up by 8 shillings  :ohmy:  Shocking, Aidy  ::)

‘D’ day 1971 today  ;)
I was a mere six (pence) years old back in 71  :lol: didnt care about money and the new currency
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: snowdrops on February 15, 2021, 20:19
I’m finding lots of things are going up on a weekly basis  :wub:  as for decimalisation day, I remember it well, I was finishing junior school that year, so had just been taught pounds,shillings & pence & we had to have lessons on decimalisation! Those lessons got increasingly more frequent as d day got nearer. I too converted everything back for a long time & still do sometimes lol
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: hasbeans on February 15, 2021, 20:59
I think Maxicrop is owned by a French company, maybe brexit means they can't collect british seaweed anymore and you're paying for their seaweed being stuck in a lorry park in Kent!
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: Subversive_plot on February 16, 2021, 02:37
I was a mere six (pence) years old back in 71  :lol: didnt care about money and the new currency

I was 14 back in '71.  I earned a few dollars here and there, cutting grass and trimming hedges for my neighbors back then.
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: jezza on February 16, 2021, 12:04
Hello maxicrop is owned by a company in France but have a UK  office, jezza
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: wighty on February 16, 2021, 18:03
I was 12 and had spent most of my  schooling under the old system.  It was a shock.
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: rowlandwells on February 16, 2021, 19:25
we  don't use Maxicrop we use a local organic English company who sells organic liquid feed at a local farm shop its as good if not better than Maxic...p none of there  lorries waiting in Kent :lol:
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: RubyRed on February 16, 2021, 21:11
   Not sure how this will go down with the group but I remember decimal day because I was 13 and erm . . . became a woman. Lol ;) :ohmy: :blush:
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: mrs bouquet on February 17, 2021, 12:19
Gosh Ruby red, fancy you remembering that   :ohmy:     Mrs B
Title: Re: 40p!!!!
Post by: mumofstig on February 17, 2021, 12:45
   Not sure how this will go down with the group but I remember decimal day because I was 13 and erm . . . became a woman. Lol ;) :ohmy: :blush:
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