Jacquie wrote:

<But that was because she was 'protected' from the real world, and your mother
was willing to go along with it.  If she hadn't been housebound and been
doing her own shopping then she would have coped with it.>

I doubt it. She'd already coped with the introduction of a lot of different things in her life which she didn't understand but could accept - radio, TV, the motor car, the aeroplane, space flight. Metrication was just a step too far for her at the age of 89.

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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