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Bai 'eck, in 1888 that shilling would've bought you:
- ten suits from a good Savile Row tailor;
- a season-ticket for the Great Western Railway;
- a small castle in Kent;
- half of the county of Norfolk;
- six months production of a decent Bordeaux vineyard;
- twelve pence, twenty-four ha'pennies, forty-eight farthings.
GrahamWe are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze
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Originally posted by Graham View PostBai 'eck, in 1888 that shilling would've bought you:
- ten suits from a good Savile Row tailor;
- a season-ticket for the Great Western Railway;
- a small castle in Kent;
- half of the county of Norfolk;
- six months production of a decent Bordeaux vineyard;
- twelve pence, twenty-four ha'pennies, forty-eight farthings.Kind regards, Sam Flynn
"Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)
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Originally posted by Sam Flynn View Post...not forgetting the inevitable two portions of fish, chips and mushy peas with enough left over for your bus-fare home.
And when you got home, you'd sleep in a puddle with 22 brothers and sisters, your parents and the pigs, and get up three hours before you went to bed, walk 42 miles to work, etc., etc.
Bloody kids today, they don't know when they're well off.
GrahamWe are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze
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Or a skinful of gin and a bed in a flophouse. Or three goes round the block, so to speak, with one of Polly Nicholls' colleagues. Or a Ford Fiesta.
Btw, bloody Trade Me. Not only can you not bid if you're overseas, you're not even allowed to log in. Grrr.best,
claire
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Can you still see the listing, picture, etc? I'd hate to think I've posted this up and nobody can see it.
B.
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