Thinking of these things - sort of normal to me though I have never had to do them, like using a copper - makes me think of food. Fruit and vegetables were seasonal - Mum shopped every day. Peas did not come frozen in packets when I was young! Now, I grow them and other things. But, I have friends in their 60s who do not know what things are in season when - no idea that zucchini = courgettes to the English who use the French name - are a summer vegetable, for instance. Available yes, but at a huge price unless they are almost fit only for the rubbish tin. I presume the same people have no idea as to when which fruit is common, crops, winter veg , etc etc either. It seems common knowledge to me, but apparently not to others. But then, since I started this family history, I found I come from a long line of "ag labs" - agricultural labourers - and even those who were not that, eg mill workers, had a vegetable patch and chopped firewood. I always knew things, same as iu always knew grass was green. But not all have that background it seems. Being poor ehelped of course - they could only afford what was cheap - ie in season. So, I knew from what was on the plate which was when! Dawn