Further reflections on the funeral

[Flosshilde]

[mangerton]

We did not check if we were using Irish or English money.

English money? What was that then?

From memory, I think the half crown was rather bigger than the current £2 coin. If you were lucky enough to get one, you were doing awfully well.

It was called a half dollar because once upon a time it was worth exactly that. It would now be worth about 19 cents.

[Beef Oven]

English money? What was that then?

From memory, I think the half crown was rather bigger than the current £2 coin. If you were lucky enough to get one, you were doing awfully well.

It was called a half dollar because once upon a time it was worth exactly that. It would now be worth about 19 cents.

Yep, my dad always referred to 5 bob as a dollar.

[amateur51]

Yay another fab Dougall-pic

Quite a Churchillian pose

[Nick Armstrong]

Yay another fab Dougall-pic

Quite a Churchillian pose

... that's one hell of a Romeo y Julieta!

[amateur51]

... that's one hell of a Romeo y Julieta!

He'll get the end all soggy trying to keep it alight ... I know I do

[Simon]

Oh Dear, but he has a point. It was a wonderful funeral

It was indeed, and the music was a joy. Though I gather that any mention of approval of Lady Thatcher on this forum is not allowed.

Perhaps, nonetheless, it may be possible to say how good it was that some representatives of the Falklands Islands were able to be present, to give thanks for the life of someone who helped to preserve their freedoms.

[Flosshilde]

... that's one hell of a Romeo y Julieta!

[Flosshilde]

Quite a Churchillian pose

Very appropriate for the thread

[Bryn]

It was indeed, and the music was a joy. Though I gather that any mention of approval of Lady Thatcher on this forum is not allowed.

Perhaps, nonetheless, it may be possible to say how good it was that some representatives of the Falklands Islands were able to be present, to give thanks for the life of someone who helped to preserve their freedoms.

Having done her best to sell them down the river the previous year, eh?

[scottycelt]

English money? What was that then? .

They never learn, mangerton ...

From memory, I think the half crown was rather bigger than the current £2 coin. If you were lucky enough to get one, you were doing awfully well.

It was called a half dollar because once upon a time it was worth exactly that. It would now be worth about 19 cents.

Indeed, a florin (2-bob bit) was more the size of a current £2 coin and probably worth about the same when I was buying my penny dainties.

I remember raiding my dad's garage looking for soda-syphon bottles ... from memory, you received a florin or thereabouts for returning one to your local Italian cafe (ice-cream parlour to non-Scots).

That's when I first appreciated the distinct advantages of capitalism over socialism.

[jayne lee wilson]

from me & Mizzy the Cat (from a safe distance)

[amateur51]

They never learn, mangerton ...

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your local Italian cafe (ice-cream parlour to non-Scots).

That's when I first appreciated the distinct advantages of capitalism over socialism.

Wales has a long history of Italian ice-cream parlours and cafés too scotty

[Richard Tarleton]

Having done her best to sell them down the river the previous year, eh?

This thread, and indeed message boards generally, do not lend themselves to detailed historical analysis, Bryn, and I've been steering well clear of Thatcher threads generally - but what are you referring to, specifically, here? Your accusation certainly applies to the Foreign Office, but Nicholas Ridley's leaseback scheme was not supported by Thatcher, was it?

There was also a belief (however mistaken) that the situation was nowhere near as bad as it had been in 1977. Once it became clear that the threat from Argentina extended to the Falklands themselves, Thatcher and Carrington dispatched three nuclear submarines to the South Atlantic. The Endurance had been dispatched from Port Stanley to Grytviken with marines on board on 20 March 1982 to act as a deterrent, following the arrival of the scrap metal dealers.

I really do not intend to get into a dissection of the origins of the Falklands War, just to establish your grounds for your one-liner.

[Bryn]

Wales has a long history of Italian ice-cream parlours and cafés too scotty

Indeed, and there were boycotts organised against them in the '30s when their owners were (rightly or wrongly) seen as supporters of both Mussolini and Mosley.