the disclaimer is that this happened ten years agobut ten years back pound notes - bank of scotland, i think; i think both clydesdale and rbos had stopped them - were *always* given in change by the butchers in st andrews. i think they had a massive stock of them or something. it wasn't very easy to buy anything with them in england.
for all i know the butchers has shut down and pound notes have finally died.
edit: i just went and checked. the nerds on wikipedia reassure me that pound notes are still issued in scotland, but it's rbos that issue them, not bos. that told me.
(for all i know the butchers has shut down and pound notes have finally died.
edit: i just went and checked. the nerds on wikipedia reassure me that pound notes are still issued in scotland, but it's rbos that issue them, not bos. that told me.
boris the spider,
Thu 12 Jul 2012, 0:14,
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You still get pound notes in ScotlandThe seem to cycle between till and wallet, never going near a bank so they're slowly getting less and less recognisable as notes.
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Thu 12 Jul 2012, 7:02,
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the ones i always gotpassed from the butchers and the pub. i imagine the pub then went and spent them at the butchers, because they never gave them out in change. neither did anyone else.
( boris the spider,
Thu 12 Jul 2012, 11:16,
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