The clouds should soon be parting and we are set for a day with little wind, so should be very pleasant outside today.
Builders had arranged to move on to another job for a while until the extra 3 tonnes of paving stone gets delivered, expected to come in about a week. It unexpectedly came yesterday afternoon. Too late to keep them here. Ah well, never mind.
This week it was reported that a woman called 911 after she stopped to get a turtle out of the road. The road was State Hwy 21 - 4 lanes, no shoulders, speed limit 70 MPH (112.6 KPH for Eric). She stopped in the middle of the road to protect the turtle while she moved the turtle off the road
but. . . . locked her keys in the car and needed assistance.
You are so considerate, thanks for thinking of me when you did the speed conversion.
I was still at school when the UK started to convert to metric measurement. Our old currency of English pounds, shillings and pence (12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound) changed overnight, never to reappear. A lot of fuss at first, but we soon got used to it. Then they changed weather forecast temperature from C to F, which didn't go down well and many still live in a Fahrenheit world, so forecasters often use both units, particularly for hot weather. I quite like Celsius.
Weighing things in kilograms and grams instead of pounds and ounces has gone ahead too and for buying items like food is now standard, although lbs are still well known.
We are supposed to measure short distances in metres now and often that works well, but I still say I am 6' tall and tend to measure anything that needs cutting to length in inches ( I make more mistakes in metres/cm/mm, I think it's the way the tape measures are marked out). If you want to buy something by length, it will always be metres, such as a 50m roll of stock fence. Yards haven't gone away and are still widely used, though to a lesser extent now by younger people. I can pace out a metre easier than a yard, so that's the one I tend to prefer.
Our fuel is sold in litres and has been that way for many years. If you want to know how much fuel a vehicle uses, everyone still says miles per gallon. For some reason unknown to me, English gallons are not quite the same as US gallons. It's probably the only thing that is bigger in the UK than in the USA (about 1/5th more).
Then we have things that never quite made it to metric. Road signs still show the maximum speed in miles per hour. 70mph is the maximum speed on fast roads and around towns it is usually 30mph. Everyone seems to like it that way, the French are welcome to keep their KPH to themselves.
