...does what it says on the tin. What's in season when, then? : comments.
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I can assure you I never sat down with a big almanack of Flowering Times In Great Britain and memorised the numbers, or made a conscious resolution to study the habits of cherry trees. I didn't "need to know" what spring or summer looked/felt like any more than I "needed to know" that the sky was kind of blueish or greyish most of the time. And no, I didn't grow up in some kind of rural idyll, just ordinary suburban houses with gardens! Maybe I am unusual in having noticed the world around me; but until getting into this bizarre conversation I honestly would have said that asking people "when does [most] fruit ripen?" was like asking "what colour are leaves?" or "does it ever rain in this country?"
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I have realised that "know nothing about the seasons of fruit" is a bit of an exaggeration, though -- pick-your-own strawberries was a summertime-ish activity, so that's one I do know. (In fact I seem to have an odd desire to exaggerate in the direction of 'I know nothing' during this conversation, which is not very helpful.)
I do notice these things in some sense ("doesn't this bit look nice when the trees are in blossom", "hmm, blackberries along this lane now") -- but I couldn't tie those memories to a time of year with as much precision/confidence as seemed to be demanded by the original poll.
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