I remember helping my Mum and Dad to open the packs of shiny new coins for our village shop on decimalisation day.

I also remember an old lady coming into the shop and thinking that a cauli for 6p was really cheap. My Mum explained that it was actually "one and tuppence", so she promptly sat down on a sack of potatoes in the shop, sighed and said she would be glad when it was all over and we could "get back to normal."