[Brian Allgar]

Although the French evolved a funny way
Of counting, it’s quite useful now and then.
In England, I’d be seventy today;
In France, thank God, I’m only sixty-ten.

(A bit of pure self-indulgent frivolity on my part. Of course, to comply with the guidelines, anyone is welcome to join in - about counting, or the differences between the French and the English, or the differences between wossname and thingummy, or the ways in which Coronation Street is completely invalidated by Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. N.B. Please, not the General Theory!)