Thursday 28 October 2010

Kitchen Smells

Thursday 28th October


Day 190


These are some smells that have scented my kitchen today -


Sharp, fresh and green - a pineapple and spinach smoothie - before we drove to the hospital for my husband’s MRI scan.


Fishy - pussy cat tuna.


Faint sweet jasmine - sprays of white solarnum crispum, still flowering all over the fence - arched in my mother’s rosebud vase.


Dark, rich roast coffee - the aroma of Sunday mornings and holidays - today a treat shared with a dear friend at the table, a circle of speckled grape vine leaves round the burning lemongrass candle.


Earthy, salty, savoury, nutty - parsnip and broccoli soup and hot-toasted pumpkin seeds.


And this afternoon the scent of the empty kitchen when I’m not there. What is the perfume of waiting to come home? Waiting for good news. A hungry smell.





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