wild wonder of ISO...

This article is a treasure... our beautiful escapades (+ possible ones) in ISO...'The wonderful Magda Szubanski has constructed an entire Taj Mahal out of Lego in her living room...' + 'teaching a pet poodle the moves to Nutbush'... and more... https://t.co/3fwXqDtrYq pic.twitter.com/TUhydXqIFu

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 8, 2020

Even love the title of this article 'Alchemy for glum times...'

Julia Baird in the above article: 

'Three of the things that have kept me going during periods of protracted illness and recovery are: susurrus in the trees (the sound of the wind whispering, rustling), apricity (the feeling of sun warming cold skin on a winter’s day) and, of course, the delicious smell of petrichor. I love these three words.' 

'Isabel Joy Bear was her name. In 1964 an Australian chemist who worked at the CSIRO for 40 years – a woman we seem to have almost entirely forgotten – came up with the name “petrichor” for the smell of rain on dry earth, and was the first to describe it in scientific terms. (For those interested in such things she found that soils with silica or metals in them were “outstanding in their capacity to yield the odour”.) 

 The smell of petrichor, too, is the smell of a broken drought.'