get your chimney swept!

[Highlander]

It is very true how skills can so easily be lost,... I always remember when I first met my wife, she was from the city and I lived in the sticks,... she was asked to light the fire in the front room, to which she readily agreed to do

It was some time later that we looked in to find she was still trying,.. she had put in the crumpled paper, and then put on the large logs that she had seen burning the night before,..and wondered why they were not catching,... she simply had little understanding of the use of sticks first

She had not seen the sticks burning

Its a simple example but its important, and re-enforces the fact that what one person takes as being so trivial, and sensible,... is to others a complete unknown.

Its where forums are so good at what they do, forum take away the ignorance, they bounce ideas around, and people end up not only learning, but thinking in a completely different way

BTW,... she can now light a fire as good as any of us...