Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 16°C, max - 22°C. 25% chance of at least 1mm of rain
Emoji inspiration: I call this part of the year (the time between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day) the “never-never times” because some things are open, others are closed, some people are working, a lot not, so fuck all gets done, and if you need anything besides food or groceries, you’re basically SOL
Happy International Day of Epidemic Preparedness!
I missed some of yesterday’s updates. Did you put anything into the drains? I usually use vinegar if it gets a bit funky.
Heat will usually bring up bad smells if something has died. The couple of times we had bad smells, it was usually a dead mouse. If it was more suburban, it’d be a dead possum.
Ah all good. Context for you and anybody else who needs it:
context:
Following @[email protected]’s advice, I had a sniff around the ceiling fan. The smell is stronger higher up, not really detectable around any of the drains, and there’s been an increase in flies recently. Current theory is either a dead rat or possum in the roof. I can’t really confirm that though, cause there’s no way I’m crawling through a roof in search of a rotting animal. But it seems likely. The smell itself is like a really strong rotting meat smell mixed with rotten eggs and an undertone of mold or mildew. No clue if that last part is related or there’s just a mold issue somewhere
If it isn’t something in the roof I really don’t know what it could be. There’s no smell around the drains, my floor is clean, nothing in the cupboard under the sink, and the area around the P trap in the under sink cupboard doesn’t smell and isn’t leaking. There’s a few spots where piping is hidden behind tiles, so it could possibly be a leaking sewage pipe or something, but I don’t know if there’s really a way to confirm that without either sending one of those high tech hose cameras down the shitter or ripping out the tiles