Thread: I have a timber story you will all like

Just while I'm here in another forum, I thought I would post this.
I was in my shed a few months ago and needed a small piece of light colored timber. I walked down the street to Anagote and looked through their offcuts pile and got some huon pine.
While I was cutting it up on the bandsaw, one of my teenage girls wandered out to see what I was doing.
I held up some of the huon pine and said, 'Here. smell this timber.'
She said, 'Hmmm. Smells like Tasmania.' And wandered off.
This is a kid who knows nothing about wood and has no interest in it but who clearly has a good sense of smell. She went on a school trip to Tasmania two years ago and did a walk and hung around Hobart for a few days. The smell of that wood must be so present down there and must be a part of her 'smell memory' of that trip. I quizzed her afterwards and she had never heard of huon pine so had no idea of the significance of it to Tasmania.