Wren (Lounged)

[Administrator]

Moving this thread to the Lounge area

[SteveT]

Macroban wrote:-Last minted in 1956, demonetised in 1960.

but had ceased being used years before, and never saw a shopkeeper (1950s) accept one or give any in change

[Sandperson]

Nero Wrote:

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> I have a wren that comes to eat all the little

> insects off a budleia (sp) bush. I'd never seen

> one on the bush until it came a few weeks ago, and

> was going to post about it, but then read that

> they are really common. Can't be that common if

> someone else is remarking on it. Nero

I can't stand people who can't control their wrens! I love insects and to see them being mindlessly killed by roaming birds is very upsetting. I think they only kill 'for fun' too.

[SteveT]

I shall have to call wrentokill, pronto.

[macroban]

My memory says that farthings were redundant in the early 1950s until 1954 when sweet rationing ceased and the children could then buy four a penny chews and Blackjacks.