Not a Bargain.

Today I finally found a company who can supply me with a new blade for my lawnmower. I’ve been trying to find one since last summer. You wouldn’t expect it to be so hard to find a new blade for a lawnmower, would you, but when the machine is a basic model and ten years old, it is.

I was pleased, as you might expect, but with one reservation. I bought the current blade five years ago. It cost £9.99. Given the current rate of inflation I was expecting today’s equivalent to be around £12, but my little order cost £16.49. So does somebody not know what ‘inflation’ means, or is their arithmetical acumen a little suspect?