Pigsh

Originally drafted at the end of July, we hemmed and hawed over this tale, but have decided to share it anyway.  The delights of city life are varied. It isn't all theatres and smart cafes.

The only thing that smells like pigsh that isn't pigsh is humansh.

Not the nicest scent to have invade your living space, especially on a hot day.  Well the odour has been hanging about and invading in our neighbourhood for a hot week or two now.  Finally someone has set about a remedy.

On Friday night F came home from a walk out with Aunty-Pili and noticed, in the dark, a water department truck parked a couple of buildings along from us .  That's the building that always has water leaking across the road - or has done for the last few weeks.

It was not until Sunday however that things really got serious.  The smell had not reached epic proportions but it had definitely intensified and then the truck came back.

You don't envy these guys their job but we are pleased that someone does it.  F and I did a smaller scale version of that at our UK house some years ago.  She poked the special drain clearing water squirting thing, and I supervised.  Some really yucky stuff came out before it all finally glugged and started to flow away again (our house is on the bottom end of a communal drain and just happened to be where all the yuck comes up if anyone flushes drain-blocking stuff into the sewers - among other things we flushed out disposable nappies...... which clearly shouldn't be disposed like that.  It was all over our back concrete before we had finally resolved the problems.)

These guys had a really big drain clearing squirty-nozzle thing, and managed to avoid having the 'yuck' come up all over the street, but it still took attempts from two sewer covers, and lots of backing up  before they finally drove off, apparently satisfied they had resolved it.

The smell intensified for a brief period after that and F considered evacuation but noticed the road was drying up where water had flowed for weeks.  And by late afternoon it was a whole lot fresher where we live.

Fresher