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Gary Woods wrote:
Malcolm wrote:

On a good year it produces about 30lbs oops,
am I now going to prosecuted by the metric police?

Certainly not by we American Colonials!

(I'm half-transitioned: my bread baking is done metrically, but I'm still
using *pounds on my garlic spreadsheet).

*decimal; pounds/ounces was too big a nuisance.

When my elder daughter objected to me slinging such matters at her,
I gave her a challenge: do what I had to do, and I will never ask
such a question again.

You pay for 13 items at one and seventeen pence three farthings;
how much change do you get from five guineas?

She did it :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.