pip.rhubarb
Wakefield · member since September 2026
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Teaching assistant in Wakefield, right in the rhubarb triangle. Forced rhubarb in the dark sheds smells amazing and nobody believes me.
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Satsuma or clementine, can your nose tell?First satsumas in the school fruit box today. Can anyone tell a satsuma from a clementine by smell alone? I can't.
Saturday market smells, stall by stallDid the Saturday market in Wakefield with my nose instead of a list. Onion sacks first, then apples (proper autumn…
Wakefield teaching assistant from the rhubarb triangleI help out in a primary classroom in Wakefield, and the rhubarb triangle starts at the end of our road. Forced rhubarb…
A garden rose next to a bottle of rose waterLast rose in the school garden and a bottle of rose water from the corner shop, side by side on the staffroom table.…
Raw rhubarb smells like a freshly mown pitchSnapped one of the last stalks of rhubarb in the school garden and it smelled exactly like a freshly mown pitch. The…