It doesn’t matter how many times I carry out smellwalks with people, there’s always something interesting and unusual that we stumble upon. Earlier this week, Kate McLean and I led the first of our smellwalks in Manchester City Centre (further details of this and future walks to follow in later blogs), and lo and behold, along with our team of intrepid smell explorers, we stumbled upon the dismantling of ‘The Diamond Jubilee Garden’ in the heart of the city outside Manchester Town Hall. The temporary garden was developed to mark the Queen’s visit to Manchester last Friday the 23rd March, and was filled with not only colourful but highly scented flowers and sculpted bees, the latter being the symbol of Manchester. The pots of plants were relocated to Exchange Square in the city centre, from where they will go on to delight the nostrils of local children, being planted in the playground of a…
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