After storm Eunice we had to have a new roof which was quickly fixed. However the loft extension where we sleep was in a terrible state - the floor ruined and dirty water marks everywhere. So last week our decorator started work and I had to move everything out and find a space to put stuff.
One ‘treasure’ I discovered was a bernous at the top of T’s cupboard which he’d bought in 1975. I brought it down and hung it on the knob at the top of the stairs.
There has been a truly awful smell developing over the last week. I’ve hoovered, scrubbed. sprayed but couldn’t find the source. In the end T said he thought it was the bernous so I put it in the washing machine. When I took it out it smelt fine. Then T hung it up and out of the hood fell a dead mouse. Somehow or other puss must have deposited a mouse in the bernous where it died and became desiccated. Until removed from its grave, encountered the air and moisture and started to decay. And then well soaked and plumped up in the washing machine. Now deposited in the black bin and the smell has disappeared.
One ‘treasure’ I discovered was a bernous at the top of T’s cupboard which he’d bought in 1975. I brought it down and hung it on the knob at the top of the stairs.
There has been a truly awful smell developing over the last week. I’ve hoovered, scrubbed. sprayed but couldn’t find the source. In the end T said he thought it was the bernous so I put it in the washing machine. When I took it out it smelt fine. Then T hung it up and out of the hood fell a dead mouse. Somehow or other puss must have deposited a mouse in the bernous where it died and became desiccated. Until removed from its grave, encountered the air and moisture and started to decay. And then well soaked and plumped up in the washing machine. Now deposited in the black bin and the smell has disappeared.
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