from the Scottish Borders.
There seem to be a few Norwegians joining right now - you are the second one I have welcomed today. I have already met three Norwegian based x-markers when they visited Scotland, hopefully will meet up with you when you come here too.
But to your question. ummm - well the scale on the other side of a one foot ruler goes up to 300mm, which is approximately one foot, so 300cm would be ten feet. That would mean 150cm would be five feet, plus another 15cm would be another six inches, then add 8 more which is just over half of the last amount ie just over three inches, so that would make 173cm just a tad over 5 feet 9 inches. I really find this new fangled metric meaurement difficult to visualise and much prefer to work in feet and inches myself.