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Wake up and print the roses

Petrichor is the name for the distinctive smell when summer rain falls on dry earth. There is no name, that I know of, for the equally distinctive aroma from freshly mown grass, nor for the smell when a new book is opened for the first time, a combination of ink, glue and perhaps other solvents and leading to the expression

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Carols for printers

10 December 2025 | St Brides Church London It’s not Christmas until we’ve sung carols in St Brides. Every December the BPIF kindly arranges