The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house.

Arlene StaffordWilson
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  1. Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven, And imprint forever upon our hearts That this is homeand that we are loved.

  2. It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

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