Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Smells and Wondering.

There’s a wide, 40-yard stretch of verge in Church Lane that’s awash with blooming meadowsweet at the moment. It smells nice. I wonder whether anybody else has noticed.

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I doubt that most hobbits attach too much significance to elephants, so I wonder why I find them such beautiful and inspirational creatures. I mean, they’re not exactly pretty, are they?

Maybe it’s because I had two sandalwood elephants as a kid. My uncle had brought them back from his time fighting in Burma during the Second World War, and I would often rub them energetically with a cloth, then sniff them to get a mild form of high. Maybe that’s it. I wonder what happened to them.

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