Just out of interest, may I ask......

As I said Deedaa

Have tried metric but can't get used to it. Still think of a 5lb bag of potatoes and half a pound of butter etc. Still think of my own weight in stones and pounds.
We haven't really gone metros properly have we? The men were talking yesterday about how many miles per gallon their cars do.
Metres per Litre? I don't think so!!

Worst was when they still advertised carpet as price per square yard- but then sold it in 2, 3 or 4 metre width, and by the linear foot. How on earth were you supposed to it all out ?!?

Both systems are good- but mixing the 2 is an absolute disaster
(but as said, 1971 was a long long long time ago O: )

mrs mopp- it is litres per 100 kilometres

Yeah, see what I mean? Give me mpg any day. Old dog, new tricks and all that!

pounds and ounces Jingle. But when measuring out for my weight loss programme it's in grams.

I use all too. Because I have an old cook book and new. =)

I swap between lbs and grams for cooking - depending on the cookery book I'm using. Length - that's another matter. I cannot visualise a centimere and always think in inches. I must remember that a metre is just over a yard. When it comes to my weight it's stones and lbs. Don't ask me what I am in kilos.

Pounds and ounces. My most used (not my favourite) is the 'Dairy book of home cookery' bought from the milkman. Easy cheap family meals. Nothing fancy. It's held together with Sellotape and is sticky. It's full of my little notes written in the margins.

I am also in both camps; most baking in grams now, but my scales have both measurements, so if am using old cookbooks I can go back to Imperial.Can only think of my weight [though try not to!] in stones and pounds.Have to say, it has taken many years to think in grams/kilos etc.Oh, and I still like feet and inches too.

I use both according to the recipe though I prefer lbs and ounces - easier to read on my scales even without my glasses! Not so grams. If we came out of the EU could we go back to pounds and ounces again do you think? Ha ha

And feet and inches. And rods and poles and perches. Gallons pints and gills. And why not pounds shillings and pence while we're at it? Yeah!!

Pounds, shillings and pence are scary now that a bar of chocolate costs about sixteen shillings!

I wonder what they print on the back of shop bought exercise books these days.

All the chat about 'miles per gallon' baffles me - where the hell do they buy gallons of petrol, so how do they know?

If a bar of chocolate had cost sixteen shillings in 1971 that would have been frightening - but to equate that to today's currency is ridiculous. It would only work if you were still earning the same amount - I know I was doing well then on £50 a week - £2,500 a year.

Thank goodness we got rid of all those ludicrous ancient weights and measures... cubits, anyone? Ells? Groats?

still old school for me...i use my computer to convert cm into inches and grms into ounces...money well i find that too scary to covert back to LSD...

LizG

@dollie - not scary, just utterly pointless!

That takes me back feetlebaum I can remember when OH broke through the £2,000 barrier and the excitement. We had a Chinese meal on the strength of it.

As I said grams and kilos I can just about cope with in cooking but when it comes to my own weight I still use stones and lbs. I can't be doing with just pounds either as they do in the US - its too big a number!
Also I can't get to grips with kilometres. I'd rather walk a mile - even though that's a bit further

In 1971 we got a mortgage on a good 3-bed detached house on one income of £1800pa. It was another three years before I got part time work work... 3 hours a week.

Nothing to do with lbs and oz but my first home in 1968 was 1,200, the next in 1971 1,700 and again in 1979 was 3,600. Not sure where I am going with this but it was all on one wage as I was a stay-at-home mum.

By contrast, my first caravan was 2,000 in 1990, sign of the times

I use both ..... But don't mix them obviously.

Granjura I wonder if the Be Ro book is the same version that I used when I first started making cakes with my Grandmother? I wish I still had it, there was a cake recipe in there that the family always referred to as "R's cake" because I always ended up making that one!

Love the melting moments in Be Ro Book, still have an old one somewhere.