SRS...though this is probably thread creep, it's a very interesting point you make as well. As a history fanatic, particualrly social history, I find it interesting the view a lot of people have of bygone times and ways of life which are so obviously coloured by their modern outlook. Properly to understand history and life in other times, one has to put oneself into the mind of a person of those times and get rid of one's own slant on life from a nowadays aspect.

As far as the basket on wheels thing goes.....I wonder when the first one cropped up and who thought of it??

Love Lynne