A spell of time with a reduced sense of taste and smell proves a boon to Jonathan Self when it clears, giving him a new appreciation of some of life’s joys.
Joni Mitchell believed that ‘you don’t know what you’ve got, ’til it’s gone’, but in my case I didn’t know until it came back. After recovering from that virus last February, I was definitely conscious of a reduced sense of taste and smell. As everything about me seems to be reducing (apart from my…