OK, here's odd: I tried buying milk yesterday morning and had one coin rejected because it was a Canadian 25 cent piece.

That's not what was odd.

Book group gang departed at the end of the work day and I'm waiting to run our deep web workshop again. But when only one guy turns up I ask if he would mind picking any time to run the 'hour' but not right now. (In fact I had quite a genuine migraine from a 90 minute transatlantic 'webinar' on a new database).

He was very gracious and happy to meet this morning for an hour.

We sat for 20 minutes (he was 10 minutes early) making sure no one else was coming and I was able to do a mini-workshop on things he didn't know as a distance learner to fill in the time. But the oddness was that rather randomly he turned out to be Canadian. So I gave him my 25c.

Oh and book group was great fun as well - I got a mini construction kit to build on Christmas Day if I can manage the engineering!