By the year 2012 we will be waving goodbye to our lovely currency, the Pound. But it won’t be replaced with the much-discussed Euro. Oh no.

Instead, the new currency will simply be stones or pebbles.

Why? Because currency as we now know it is too easy to forge. Counterfeit money is popping up all over the place these days, not just in deprived council areas or other places where undesirable people live or frequent.

The Common stone, the type that can be found on the floor is to be promoted from hard, small useless rocks to the premier currency in Europe, and will be known quite simply as ‘the British Stone’.

The colour and size of the stone will have a bearing on its value. The most common type of stone, the ‘Grey Stone’ will become the pennies. ‘White stones’ will be the silver i.e. 5p, 10p, 20p or 50p dependant on size. The more difficult to come by ‘Brown/Black Stones’ are set to become the ‘notes’; i.e. £5, £10, £23 and £1000. Again, size denotes value.

So, come on then, forge that!