The ghostly smell is back.

[minestrone]

thats a good skill that.
Was it an apprenticeship ?

Started at 15 washing the plates everynight after school and held the job up for 5 years while at university. By the end I was running the shop, my boss decided to try and stop a sausage mixing machine with his hand and chopped his finger in half, not a chop that took his finger off, a chop that gave him 11 fingers. The sewed it together but he eventually elected to get it removed.

I should have got an apprenticeship for my time.

[EternalOptimist]

thats a good skill that.
Was it an apprenticeship ?

[minestrone]

Having had the delightful experience I can say that a house where a corpse has lain for ages still stinks weeks later even after the council has fumigated.

I have had that as well. I will never forget that smell and I worked as a butcher for 5 years and smelt a lot of disgusting things.

[RichardCranium]

I take half a step back or forward and I can smell nothing.

You wazzock! You've pissed in your shoe!

[HairyArsedBloke]

I'm on the third floor so I doubt if it's coming from the bushes outside. The floor is solid and tiled so there is nothing underneath or from the carpet. I don't have a cooker (don't ask!)

I've given the whole place a good dose of 'Oust' and I can't smell it at the moment.

[OwlHoot]

This is not one of my gags.

Just before the door to the kitchen, I can smell something very faintly. To be blunt: cat’s pee. I take half a step back or forward and I can smell nothing.

I thought I had figured it out the other week as coming from another flat or the communal parts of the building via the risers, but there is no trace of smell from where they are.

Wierd.

I was in two minds about keeping this place on, but now I think I've made my mind up.

Is "just before the door to the kitchen" carpeted? If so and people have been tramping in and out it's inevitable that some grease and suchlike from the kitchen floor will have been trampled into the carpet at that point.

Alternatively, does the cooker need a clean? Goo round the rings can smell a bit rank if it is repeatedly wetted and warmed and added to

Mind you, in neither of those cases would one necessarily expect the smell to be localized as you describe.

[BlackenedBiker]

Having had the delightful experience I can say that a house where a corpse has lain for ages still stinks weeks later even after the council has fumigated. Why can't they genetically engineer bacteria that generate perfume? Or they could rewire our brains so stinky things smell good, what a saving on deodourants and lav cleaners.

PS Probably wrong time of year but any box hedges outside? Some can smell it, some can't but if you can it smells like cat pee.

Probably outweighed by the cost of burying the people who died whilst eating feacally contaminated material.

[xoggoth]

Having had the delightful experience I can say that a house where a corpse has lain for ages still stinks weeks later even after the council has fumigated. Why can't they genetically engineer bacteria that generate perfume? Or they could rewire our brains so stinky things smell good, what a saving on deodourants and lav cleaners.

PS Probably wrong time of year but any box hedges outside? Some can smell it, some can't but if you can it smells like cat pee.

[RichardCranium]

We had that in one house we were renting. Especially in a particular bedroom. I mentioned it to the landlord: "Yeah, that's the room she died in. Cancer. I looked after until the end."

Spooky, huh?

I looked pensive.

"I hope the smell has now gone" he said. "I did try cleaning the carpet but when I walked on certain floorboards I could still smell it. Her incontinence was quite bad those last few weeks."


I reckon your ghost is probably a dead rodent in the floor recess.

[EternalOptimist]

This is not one of my gags.

Just before the door to the kitchen, I can smell something very faintly. To be blunt: cat’s pee. I take half a step back or forward and I can smell nothing.

I thought I had figured it out the other week as coming from another flat or the communal parts of the building via the risers, but there is no trace of smell from where they are.

Wierd.

I was in two minds about keeping this place on, but now I think I've made my mind up.

spookyville.

I have had this wierd garlicky smell following me round all day. I could do with some cats pee to drown it out

[HairyArsedBloke]

This is not one of my gags.

Just before the door to the kitchen, I can smell something very faintly. To be blunt: cat’s pee. I take half a step back or forward and I can smell nothing.

I thought I had figured it out the other week as coming from another flat or the communal parts of the building via the risers, but there is no trace of smell from where they are.

Wierd.

I was in two minds about keeping this place on, but now I think I've made my mind up.