I-Spy...........Smells

P is for Plasticine- the coloured stuff you could roll into shapes. It used to come in strips, with ridges on and you could roll it around in your hands to warm it. It had an oily sort of smell, that stayed on your hands.
Plasticine is one of the few things I can remember playing with in Infants school. We were given wooden boards to roll our plasticine on. One time I made a very complicated arrangement of plasticine (don't ask me what). At the end of the lesson we were supposed to remove the plasticine and leave the boards clean for the next time. My plasticine seemed to have dried onto the board and I couldn't get it off so I sneaked the board into the cupboard when the teacher wasn't looking (or so I thought).
The next time we had a plasticine play lesson, guess which board I was given!!

I remember the smell well. My brother, who was 4 yrs older, used to roll small pellets of the stuff then use an empty biro barrel as a pea shooter. Guess who was the target! Mother used to go ballistic at him, not for using his delightful baby sister for target practice  but for leaving tiny plasticine pellets to be trodden into the carpet.

As for my P smell..........perhaps I should phrase that differently (except after eating asparagus,  has anyone noticed how vile wee smells after asparagus) anyway I digress,  P would be a fresh ripe Pineapple so redolent of the tropics and my childhood.  Tastes good too.