On a whim to show how easy it is to create a story through sensory impressions( Shena Mackay a great example for students in The Orchard on Fire) I wondered why a car might smell of jelly babies and the feelings associated with a parents’ love of red jelly babies in particular, Such a love ‘fed’ on the knowledge that red jelly babies always less numerous than green or yellow ones…AND not only are there issues around eating jelly babies at 80mph there may be issues around finding them in the first place…
AND yet…eating jelly babies is rather more about memory than digestion…each red jellly baby conjures up…literally …a great grandmother..long dead, inhabitant of huge isolated house in rural India where packets of jelly babies would arrive once a month ….the joy of the red jelly baby treasured …
And Grandmother DOES like driving in fast cars. Such an outing for her and so much more to see….
I think I may write a story about this..perhaps I already have…