All named characters are adults; the youngest is thirty-one. A 1974 trawler crew list carries eleven names for fourteen men, which the story treats as a gap in a record and nothing more. A seventy-four-year-old woman who wrote a rule the club still obeys may not want to be asked about it, and the club telephones her at most twice and is refused nothing. A member is quite sure her grandmother's dal is not hers, and says so. A member would rather the club printed no source lines at all. A starter on the bench has been fed since 1974 and a jar of pickles has not been the original jar since 1978. No sexual content, violence, danger, crime, illness, death on the page, disaster, or shortage, and no food going wrong. The insurance renewal is a letter with a date on it and nothing is at stake if it is late.