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The scent bottle of life

Dear Sheddists,

I was reflecting this week on the fact that whilst we express our lives for the most part in two primary senses, sight and sound, the remaining three are for many of us so much more evocative.

I spent just five minutes the other day bringing to mind some of the smells I associate with my early life at school …

• fresh-cut grass on school playing-fields;
• the anaglypta wall-paper we used to cover our school exercise-books;
• crumbs at the bottom of the 'half-penny' biscuit barrel during break-time at kindegarten;
• that strange plimsoll-whitening solution which stuck to everything but the plimsoll itself;
• boiled cabbage;
• the sweet dust smell on opening an old desk at the start of a new term; and
• the rubber and gas of a lit bunsen-burner.

Just pause for a second to bring one of these to mind. Close your eyes and open the scent bottle of life - you might discover more than you would imagine!

And perhaps you might even leave a comment with a personal favourite of your own ….

best regards,

electrofried(mr)