BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pblakeney]

1983, last day of the Tay salmon fishing season, I got an unexpectedly thin pay packet. I was due two weeks wages plus end of season bonus, which came to £151.04.

My pay packet contained three notes and two coins. The rest of the crew were also paid in absurdly large notes.

We were all off to the pub to start the end of season piss up. It was Saturday lunchtime so no banks open. Forged £50s were a problem even then, so no one would take them. At least I could buy a pint back then with £1.04.

I'm curious about that 4p coin. 🤔😂

 

[Mr Celine]

I'm curious about that 4p coin. 🤔😂

1 x £100, 1 x £50, 1 x £1, 2 x 2p

 

[First Aspect]

1 x £100, 1 x £50, 1 x £1, 2 x 2p

Good god. Are you telling me there used to be a one pound note?

 

[Pblakeney]

1 x £100, 1 x £50, 1 x £1, 2 x 2p

OMG! I forgot about the £1 note. 😂

 

[Beebo]

OMG! I forgot about the £1 note. 😂

1983.
So anyone under 43 has never experienced life without a £1 coin!

 

[briantrumpet]

1983.
So anyone under 43 has never experienced life without a £1 coin!

I can just remember 'old money', but not the 10/- note. I remember trying to copy the swirly thing from the *old* (bigger) £1 note.

 

[BoldonLad]

Good god. Are you telling me there used to be a one pound note?

Not only that, a 10 shilling (50p to you children) note 😂

You don’t know what you missed, after a weekend on the drink, Monday morning, finding a crumpled up 10bob note in your pocket. The joy of the 1960s. 😂

 

[Mr Celine]

1983.
So anyone under 43 has never experienced life without a £1 coin!

Royal Bank of Scotland issued £1 notes until 2001. I haven't seen one for a while.

 

[AndyRM]

Royal Bank of Scotland issued £1 notes until 2001. I haven't seen one for a while.

I still keep one in my wallet. Nowhere will take it, but it's a neat little keepsake.

 

[Ian H]

My father recalled getting his demob money in fivers and not being able to spend them because of fear of forgeries; he had to change them at a bank.

 

[Pross]

I'm curious about that 4p coin. 🤔😂

I was trying to work out the same as I’d assumed the notes were all 50s

 

[briantrumpet]

A couple who moved to the 'rural idyll' of Lincolnshire (in fact one of the most heavily agriculturally exploited area of the UK, and almost totally unnatural) complaining in the Guardian about solar farms.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...re-solar-farm-controversy-british-countryside

Bluesky isn't terribly sympathetic.

 

[First Aspect]

A couple who moved to the 'rural idyll' of Lincolnshire (in fact one of the most heavily agriculturally exploited area of the UK, and almost totally unnatural) complaining in the Guardian about solar farms.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...re-solar-farm-controversy-british-countryside

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Bluesky isn't terribly sympathetic.

I have some sympathy for the view that there are lots of roofs suitable for solar. We really ought to be being paid to have them installed. An up front sum for your roof space would be more attractive to most people than an upfront cost that will take a decade to recoup.

Nimbys are people. People hate change. It is understandable.

Ok the flip side, having lived next to a farm for a decade, these people might actually in retrospect be thankful that it is replaced by silent solar panels. Farms are workplaces. Farm land is not as quiet as one might imagine.

 

[Pinno718]

I didn't know where to put this but it's a cracker anyhoo:
Don't worry about the cartoons, it was added as this was a live radio broadcast.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TOR895yhIw

 

[Rusty Nails]

A couple who moved to the 'rural idyll' of Lincolnshire (in fact one of the most heavily agriculturally exploited area of the UK, and almost totally unnatural) complaining in the Guardian about solar farms.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...re-solar-farm-controversy-british-countryside

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Bluesky isn't terribly sympathetic.

That's rational for Lincolnshire.