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Serendipity and the scents of war

I wrote the other day about scent, as one of my favourite words (serendipity’s another). Scent isn’t a word you’d normally associate with the war in Afghanistan. But it cropped up in a Radio Scotland programme, Black Watch, 3 Scots: A War in Their Own Words, recounting life in the Afghan war zones. The account takes …

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Posted byMarian Dougan30 April 201023 June 2014Posted inBooks, English, Language, Life and work and everything elseTags: BBC, Books, English, Language, Life and work, poetry, serendipity, warLeave a comment on Serendipity and the scents of war

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