D-Day

The other anniversary last week - and one which rather passed me by on the day itself, was the 40th anniversary of D-Day.  16th February 1971. 

When the UK switched from pounds, shillings and pence to what Isaac Asimov called, when he visited Britain a few years later, "A Handful of Dimes". 

There was a great advertising campaign at the time, and I can still remember all of the equivalent values they drummed into us (eg sixpence was two-and-a-half new pee).