Oils, visas and dumplings.

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1. It's tangerine season again and in the afternoon when we are snacking on fruit a faint citrus smell wafts through the office.

2. The visas in my old passport. I like the textured paper and the different coloured stamps and the foreign lettering. At the time, it was cross-making to pay so much for them, but I still enjoy them years later.

3. Dumplings puffing up in a pot of stew.

Comments

  1. JoeinVegasWednesday, November 30, 2005

    4. Smelling the citrus oil still on your fingers as you drive home.
    (sorry darlings, it's citrus season every day out here. Some variety is always ripe, and the stores always have orange colored things all year)

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  2. UnknownThursday, December 01, 2005

    I agree about tangerine smells. Try keeping a piece of tangerine skin and squeezing it from time to release the perfume. The smell lasts for ages and if anything improves. I read somewhere a description of a Chinese woman who kept a piece of tangerine skin in a small tin. I think she used it as a perfume and as a flavouring in cooking. Tabgerines must have been in rare at that time and place because she attached great value to it.

    Joe in Tunbridge Wells (aka Plutarch)

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