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Mike and Pleater,
Thank you so much for your input. Pleater I take that by micrometer you are talking about a calliper device to measure instead of using a tape measure or ruler and if so that is a brilliant idea! I just looked on Amazon and they had ones with a digital readout and all. I might have to get me one of those, I think.
Cheers
I gave in recently and got one with a nice big digital readout - though I do take a quick look at the actual ruler part just to double check that it is properly zeroed. My eyesight is getting to the stage where I need to take off the glasses and be careful not to get a pin in my nose when checking the line of a pleat.

My tape measures and rulers are metric one side inches the other. The rulers have the zero at the opposite ends though, which is a nuisance, I'd like a transparent ruler with the two scales one above the other.

I tend to work in Centigrade for temperature, grams or Kg for weight having worked in laboratories, but miles and mph is the only thing I can make sense of for distance or the speed of a vehicle.

My sister, 3 years younger than me, went into a maths exam and watched the teacher turn pale when he looked at the paper, then stagger out. She had been taught fractions, yds, ft and ins etc, and the exam paper used decimals and metric units. All but one failed the exam.

Anne the Pleater