Did anyone ever have dime plum pudding at Christmas?
one silver sixpence! Of course, I remember this. The only reason why we are not doing it this year is the Xmas pud. is cooked in the microwave, so metal is not safe (and putting the trinkets after is not the same). And it is not just a sixpence for wealth, there was a gold ring – the finder will be married during the next year, ho ho. And a button, for the bachelor or spinster and other clutter if really keen. We only bothered with a sixpence. Of course, it became a little tricky when sixpences were no longer silver. The you’d have to look out in the change for a pre-1925 I think it was, sixpence. Then came the next kibosh to this tradition – decimalisation, when sixpence became 2 1/2 new pence and there was no equivalent coin – sheesh. But we traditionalist, of course, have a good collection of real English coins and so would keep going. Then came the next little hiccough, the one which I think our New World cousins are keen on – fear of something handled by others, or even silver con
