Friday 21 March 2014

the smell of poplar buds

Interesting how things change and how contrasts emerge. Yesterday early in the day I was working in a garden clearing dead stems etc away from a rough area. Suddenly I noticed a smell which literally stuck with me all day until the washing machine door opened. Fox.

This morning, I was walking around a piece of land where I am doing some voluntary survey work and a different smell struck me, much more pleasant and almost addictive. Poplar buds. They are perhaps one of my favourite spring smells, the buds get sticky and the smell is addictive. If you have never smelt them search one out.

1 in 10 of us

Just watching a programme ont telly, its about celebrities and there ancestors in workhouses. Interesting little statement just made, 1 in 10 of us have ancestors who were in the workhouse at some stage. I know I am one those, my paternal grandad was born in one and never forgot it or the need to work to stay out of debt.