2024-12-26
After the climax of Christmas Day, how to fill the gap between the Christmas holiday and the return to normal life?
For some the gap may not exist, for others it may be no more than Boxing Day, for still others it may extend through the New Year celebrations. But however long this gap is for us, it's an interregnum that permits a opportunity for the curious to investigate matters puzzling yet inessential, quixotic yet not entirely irrelevant, or perhaps of potential import if only we could quiet ourselves for long enough to actually apply our minds to teasing out the hidden nuances.
So in this morning's welcome calm following the storm unleashed last night by the latest Wallace and Gromit escapade (actually, "escapade" is far too insignificant a word for this cataclysm by several orders of magnitude!) I was pleased to note this little offering on the history of currency, in this case centering on the Pound Sterling. Although I was no stranger to £.s.d in my youth, I still found plenty to pique my interest.
