So now I'm a hectare...

[Admin aka Dan]

A hectare is 10 000 square metres, equal to 2.471 acres.

Phew!

[Admin aka Dan]

[Roy Bham UK]

 :o Enough to make your eyes water :o

[Curryandchips]

It is nice to see recognition of both imperial and metric systems ... well I think so anyway.  :D

[Spruance]

It is nice to see recognition of both imperial and metric systems ... well I think so anyway.  :D

Hi Curry,

Yes, I suppose metric has to get a look in somewhere, but by rights, all you top-rankers should be square miles! ;)

[moonbells]

A hectare is 10 000 square metres, equal to 2.471 acres.

Thanks!
That's weird. I read something the other day that had them the other way round, and I very carefully read it thinking about the new designations here.

They obviously got it wrong - now all I have to do is remember which site it was so I can email them!!!

moonbells

[redimp]

You could give 'em a righ good hectaring mb ;D

[cambourne7]

I have a plot approx 38ft by 98ft whats that then?

[Robert_Brenchley]

3 724 square feet, which roughly equates to a lot of digging. To be precise, 0.085 acre, or 13.68 perch.

[Heldi]

my head hurts

[Curryandchips]

Now isn't that a coincidence ...  :D

[Yellow Petals]

my head hurts

LOLOL

[cambourne7]

3 724 square feet, which roughly equates to a lot of digging. To be precise, 0.085 acre, or 13.68 perch.

OK so how do i add that to my profile?

[ACE]

I think I'd like to be a path ::)

I need a path through my long grass, pehaps you would like to come and lie down in it ;D

[nippie]

Funny I just noticed I'm a quarter acre and I started that old Wurzle song .. "Combined Harvester" when I remember that actually says 40 acres, oh well I got a long way to go yet  ::)  ;D

[Georgie]

..which for some reason put me in mind of that old corny song, Lucille, and the commonly misheard second line of the chorus:

' You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille'

'With four hundred children and a crop in the field.'

;D

G x

[Kepouros]

But why do the poor hectares have to be defined on the basis of measurements which Napoleon and his scientists (being French) got wrong in the first place.  The metre was supposed to be 1/10^7 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator going via Paris.  As neither old Boney nor any of his scientists had ever been to the north Pole or had any but the vaguest idea where it was the whole thing was a b-lls up anyway and the metre is NOT 1/10^7 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator via Paris

But that`s what the Eu insists we must do - base all our future measurements on a french b-lls up.

[Robert_Brenchley]

That's because Boney conquered Europe.

[Kepouros]

And who conquered Boney!

[Robert_Brenchley]

He forgot that Russia is more than just the European bit!

[Kepouros]

Didn`t hear of any Russians (European or otherwise) at Waterloo. But then they didn`t fight him anyway - just set the place on fire, ran away and hid until he ran out of supplies and went home again.  No Stalingrad in those days.