Nick Maclaren wrote in message ...


Quite. Everyone needs to be able to go to a builder's merchant and
ask for 3 metres of two by one :-)


I have been in a builders (label on the gate 'we only deal in Metric
sizes')and asked what the cost of the 50mm sq. timber was, to be told it
was so much a foot!

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk