Bad smell yesterday [Archive]

WasGeri

09-09-2005, 18:21

Did anyone else notice this? I went out at lunchtime and it was ponging - like a cross between rotting rubbish and horrible cheesy feet!

When I left at 5 o'clock it was smelling more like horse manure.

Apparently there were complaints from all over Bristol but the city council and Wessex Water had no idea where it was coming from.

Karma

09-09-2005, 18:22

someone must of dropped a big-un.

WasGeri

09-09-2005, 18:23

someone must of dropped a big-un.

It must have been a gurt big-un!

Karma

09-09-2005, 18:31

It must have been a gurt big-un!

Lol.....maybe it was a collective big-un!

easy g

09-09-2005, 21:01

I copped it!

fat hamster

09-09-2005, 21:23

I noticed that! Just after midday. I was on the way over to Carolina Green to discuss where to put the stage for tomorrows street party. Ended up checking my shoes to see if I'd stepped in something, because the smell followed me down the road...but the caretaker could smell it too.

Sunspots

09-09-2005, 22:59

Weird! At some point, maybe this afternoon, I definitely overheard a couple of people remarking about the smell. :confused:

tobyjug

11-09-2005, 16:50

It must have been a gurt big-un!

It must have been, I was camped nea Weston-super-Mare, (Court Farm, Banwell) and it was a bit whiffy there.

Sunspots

11-09-2005, 16:55

Don't worry, Bristol's Evening Post (http://www.epost.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145176&command=displayContent&sourceNode=144906&contentPK=13165015) is on the case of the mysterious pong... :D

lizzieloo

11-09-2005, 16:56

Did anyone else notice this? I went out at lunchtime and it was ponging - like a cross between rotting rubbish and horrible cheesy feet!

When I left at 5 o'clock it was smelling more like horse manure.

Apparently there were complaints from all over Bristol but the city council and Wessex Water had no idea where it was coming from.

We get the same horse maunre smell in Milton Keynes, I was wondering what that was :confused:

fizzerbird

11-09-2005, 21:01

:rolleyes:

It was coming from Dundry slopes. The good old fashioned 'blood, bone and fish guts' muck spreading that goes on around this time every year.

This year it was particularly pungent and the wind was blowing it into town...so you guys got the pleasure as well as me.

More of the same stuff to come next week lol :D

djbombscare

11-09-2005, 22:36

We did have cabbage on Saturday :D

astral

11-09-2005, 22:52

The drains all flooded after that rain on Saturday, and that was when we noticed the smell. Maybe it has something to do with that?

J77

14-09-2005, 10:19

Yeah, remeber that - It was smelling in Clifton all the way to Ashton when I walked home - I presumed the council got a truckload of manure on the cheap for their roses :confused:

WasGeri

14-09-2005, 11:49

The drains all flooded after that rain on Saturday, and that was when we noticed the smell. Maybe it has something to do with that?

No, the smell was before the rain.

As advised by fizzerbird, it seems it was due to muckspreading in Dundry.