How do we cheer up the English?

England ranks last in mental health and you all treat it like a joke.

Blatant lie. If I had to put up with British weather and food......

The whinging Pom stereotype is very overstated. Germans are worse.
 
Think we are down to 5 coins.

10c, 20c, 50c, $1, $2.

Used to have 1c,2c and 5c coins. 1 and 2c disappeared around the same time $1 and $2 notes.
Going through some of my Aussie dad's travel stuff I found a few old New Zealand shillings and florins. Wonder how many of us here know about that today.
 
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.

A.E Housman
 
Going through some of my Aussie dad's travel stuff I found a few old New Zealand shillings and florins. Wonder how many of us here know about that today.

Gone 1967.

Could still spend some as a kid though. Arcade machines could take the old coins.
 
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