Colm O'Regan: Nose dive into nature's smells

If there’s thunder and lightning, the electricity can force three oxygen atoms together to form ozone which has a sharp fresh smell

Warm weather in autumn and spring, feels strange. Because the days are not of summer-length, it seems to get darker early. It’s like being on holiday somewhere closer to the equator. By Thursday I was getting a fierce urge to “do something cultural because we can’t sit around drinking for the whole holiday”.

It’s cooled down since but for now let’s bask in the afterglow of basking in the glow of last week. It smelled differently. For a few days, the morning was a delicious process of heating up to a summer day after an autumn night. And it had a warm smell on top of a cool smell. And it got me thinking about the smell of nothing.