Charlie Fiver

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1 June 2025 at 09.27

How can I tell it's the first of the month?

Ferretfingers has just walked into the office, stark bollock naked except for the bandage on his leg, and handed me a fiver.

And it's a Charlie with a Churchill on the back.

Maybe it's time to change Churchill for someone else.

Perhaps Aneurin Bevan the face of creating the National Health Service.

Or would that be too political?

As if Churchill isn't political.

Mrs Quilt  That sounds a very, very good idea.  NHS is 77 this year.  I suspect that it has had as much impact as Churchill guiding Britain through WW II.  Not necessarily better but equally important!

Bentonbag  Churchill was very good at PR, presentation, inspiration and allowing people to get on with doing what they were good at.  But were it not for the soldiers, sailors, airmen, WRENs, WAACs, WAAFs, scientists, boffins, industrialists, spies, intelligence officers, codebreakers, landgirls and the fact so many people were prepared to 'do their bit' (irrespective of Churchill's speeches) we'd have been lost.

Mrs Quilt  Very True, But they just put the figurehead on the notes!