Now I don’t know about you, but I can picture a yard, see it in my mind’s eye, but can’t imagine a metre.

I know and can judge a pound of sugar, but say a kilo and it means nothing.

So, if I and the person who’s selling me the stuff are happy with our ‘contract’ of sale, where’s the problem?

They say it will confuse the children. I don’t think so, in fact will add to their knowledge, perhaps help bridge the generation gap.

While I’m at it I think we’re far too soft accepting and putting up with things imposed from Europe.

We are not Europeans, but an island race and hopefully, fiercely independent, yet still they keep expecting us, nay ordering us, to act like puppets of Brussels.