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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Bluebells have a 'green' smell to them.
We were never allowed to bring them in the house. If we picked them they had to stay on the window ledge outside...usually in a milk bottle(milk bottles of that era had wide necks and cardboard tops).
Ma said they were bad luck in the house.
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I found it strange about myself that after a lifetime in the trade I have never sniffed a bluebell, something I will rectify today when I am on short walk duty, so you can imagine the image of me yet again on my hands and knees this time sniffing flowers.