Some smells change your mood before you’ve had a chance to think about why — and there’s a simple reason for that. Scent doesn’t go through the same “let me consider this” part of the brain that a sight or a sound does. It goes straight to the part that holds memory and feeling, which…
There’s a walk we do often enough that I could probably describe it with my eyes closed, and yet it’s never quite the same walk twice. It starts in the village, just past the church, where we turn left onto a path that used to be a road, or maybe a railway — nobody seems…