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.