Spooky, I've been doing some gardening - well jungle control more like it and I've come indoors and the smell of the grass (and weeds) on my clothes and the sunny weather (for a change) flashed back to my first garden with the Ex. It was massive and despite us both working full time we were able to tend it - it had plums, apples, pears, elderberries, damsons, cherries and then other fruit like raspberries, black, red and white currants, rhubarb. Three huge lawns at the back and two smaller ones at the front. We grew vegetables and we kept it really nicely.
The flashback was actually, having finished mowing the lawn and sitting back a little hot, sweaty and smelling of grass and the garden having a cup of tea. Things weren't so bad back then we worked our backsides off, did full time jobs, overtime, looked after the garden, and everything else. Life was simpler, we made jams and wine and cakes and froze so much produce for use later.
Happy days. Interesting these flash backs to these times. The brain is associating smell particularly with good times and those moments in time that were special. When you were in the present moment if you like.
I really need to get myself back to being appreciative of Now, the Present and not to be elsewhere.
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