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Conversions of units used in cooking such as pounds, ounces, grams and millilitres and standard sizes for cookery. With the advent of the internet finding recipes has become easier, however you often find the right recipe only to find that the units are 'foreign'. Sometimes you will find the weights in grams or measurements in cups where the standard is different in the Canada to the US. Our site is designed to help you make sense of these measurements and to translate them to those you are comfortable with.

Stones to Pounds conversions and Pounds to Stones and weight converter tables for common conversions. These conversion tables are based offer a quick lookup to convert stones to pounds or you can use our quick convert utility.

Stones to kilograms conversions and kilograms to stones and weight converter tables for common conversions. These conversion tables are based offer a quick lookup to convert stones to kilograms or you can use our quick convert utility.

Pounds (GBP) to Dollars (USD) conversions and USD to GBP and converter tables for common conversions.

Dates for UK bank holidays and public holidays including regional variations for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In the UK bank holidays are days when the banks and many other businesses are closed for the day. Included on the bank holidays site are the public holidays, Christmas Day and Good Friday, that have been traditionally respected as holidays.

Shoe Sizes Conversion For American, British, European, Australian, Japanese & Mondopoint Footwear. With shoe sizes being measured by different systems in various parts of the world, those living and working abroad can often need a quick converter when buying shoes.

Miles to Kilometres Conversion and converter tables for common conversions.

Quick lookup for A & B paper sizes and C envelope sizes, with simple conversion between dimensions in mm and inches. Across the world, apart from in North America, paper is sold in standard sizes defined by ISO 216. The key feature of these standard sizes being that if you cut a sheet in half parallel to the shortest edge you will get the next size down.

Easy to use converter for celsius to fahrenheit temperature conversions and fahrenheit to, centigrade conversion also included.