In search of lost Punts
Grandad February 10th, 2007
We were watching the news last night.
They had an item on about lost currency.
The Euro was introduced here five years ago and the old Irish Pound, or Punt ceased to be legal tender. You can’t use it any more. It is worthless, though you can still get it changed in the Central Bank.
Apparently, they estimate that there is still £300,000,000 out there. Yes - that’s three hundred million Punts. That is one heck of a lot of money.
We started surmising where all this money could be. Under mattresses? In attics?
I casually mentioned that, now that I think of it, my father didn’t trust banks, and may have buried his retirement fund under the vegetable patch.
Herself never even asked why I hadn’t mentioned this before. She was gone.
She came in once or twice during the evening for a drink of water and to get extra clothing. It was very cold out there, and the snow is still on the ground.
She came in at around one o’clock and said she had dug the entire patch [and it's a very big patch] to a depth of about two feet and had found nothing.
“Ah no” Says I. “Dad was thorough. He always said to bury something at least three or four feet, or it might surface accidentally”
She came in at around eight this morning and collapsed in bed.
She found nothing of course, because there was nothing to find
I’ve been meaning to dig that vegetable patch for ages.
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You sly old dog you. Getting the Missus to do the work of a man while you kick back and enjoy the rugby or whatever.
I hope to be that shrewd someday.
I didn’t ask her to do it!
Anyway, that’s what’s called “Life Experience”.
It’s why you young people should listen to us more often.
Maybe Uncle Charlie took the £300,000,000 with him!
In which case I am definitely going to the Blaskets…..
Now you really owe me!!!!!
While yes, it is true that old people do have a lot to offer society …
The old people in Cavan also have unparalleled complaining skills, so I learned from the best.
You may find some of those missing punts if you vote for me … (winks and slips a fifty into Grandad’s pocket.)
Thanks for the fifty, but we are in the same camp!!
Sure with a bit of luck [and bribery in other quarters] we’ll both be short-listed and I’ll buy you a pint with it at the Awards
Here’s hoping to that.
Congrats on receiving nominations in a manly four categories, while I have just a puny one.
By the way, in a nerdy note, how much do you pay for having the pleasure of your own domain?
Blogger has become irritatiingly unreliable lately.
Congrats on receiving nominations in a manly four categories
Nobody is more surprised than me.
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I get free hosting from my pal Ron. The domain is paid for by the ads [and a bit over for Ron too].
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He says there is a very good offer over at Blacknight for only €50.
Yeah, I checked that out. Thanks.
Methinks it’s time to leave the temperamental Blogger behind me. 450 for not having a pain in the posterior when I try to put up a post. Bargain.
That should have been €50, not 450. Even if it were that much, it’d still be a deal.
Ron says they are a great crowd. Apart from being a professional hosting crowd, they are very keen bloggers in their own right. A good bunch by all accounts.