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the "Bristol pong"

gentlegreen

gentlegreen

I hummus, therefore I am ...
Was it just me, or was there a gawd-awful niff in the air yesterday evening ?

5.30 pm at Frenchay the reak of sour milk was making me gag ...

noticed it again at Lawrence Hill around 10pm so my guess is it was hugging the Frome valley - luckily the rain shower damped it down ...

I heard a rumour it was muck spreading somewhere..

May have been down to the wind that also filled my garden with rubbish from Tesco
 
Lolly noticed it as well as she was on her way home from work...

she wondered if it was muckspreading as well????

any pig farms nearby?

has butchers showered recently??
 
gentlegreen said:
I heard a rumour it was muck spreading somewhere..
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I can concur...smelled more like shit-drilling than silage or good'ol muck. :vom:,,,mind you i saw a gurt pile of horse manure up at the allotments Knowle way last night...maybe it was intransit over rush'our? :D


Note::Etnies and dandelion slaughter don't mix on days like this...my poor trainers! :(
 
Yep, Bristol definitely smelt of shit yesterday. :eek: :D

It was pretty windy, wasn't it. I reckon it was wafting down from Dundry again (-like it was the other week).
 
Yeah - drove through Knowle around 6 - stunk bad.

Didn't fizzer say it was the fish-gut spreading of the Dundry Hill in the last 'pong' thread?
 
Do they still spread pig muck out Frenchay way, and does it still pen and ink as you drive past Bridgewater when the cellophane factory is goin' strong?

Come to think of it, it could have been the Frenchay pig mucking, gawd that used to smell strong. Had to go for a quart of scrump to get over ee.
 
J77 said:
Yeah - drove through Knowle around 6 - stunk bad.

Didn't fizzer say it was the fish-gut spreading of the Dundry Hill in the last 'pong' thread?
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Used to live in Paddock Gardens, Whitchurch, just down the bottom of the hill from Dundry. I could see Dundry and the sports centre from the kitchen and front bedroom(s) windows. I used to drive up a narrow and fairly steep lane to the top for a pint or two some evenings.
 
Definitely not coming from Frenchay, not sure if they still do muck spreading but I've lived here (Eastville) for 8 years and not smelt anything too minging.
 
It's odd. I know we experienced a similar pong a few weeks ago, but I don't remember it in previous years... :confused:
 
FruitandNut said:
Do they still spread pig muck out Frenchay way, and does it still pen and ink as you drive past Bridgewater when the cellophane factory is goin' strong?

Come to think of it, it could have been the Frenchay pig mucking, gawd that used to smell strong. Had to go for a quart of scrump to get over ee.
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The pigs are long gone, as are the battery hens, but I vaguely remember savouring the aroma from the cauldrons of swill on an autumn evening as I cycled down Coldharbour Lane.
 
A few weeks ago, during the long, heavy spell of hot weather there was a strong pong all along the Frome.

I noticed it first around Wade Street. Then over the days and weeks it seemed to spread.

Mind, Wade Street is always a bit whiffy.
 
inks said:
A few weeks ago, during the long, heavy spell of hot weather there was a strong pong all along the Frome.

I noticed it first around Wade Street. Then over the days and weeks it seemed to spread.

Mind, Wade Street is always a bit whiffy.
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The Frome itself tends to smell a bit odd - maybe of detergent - I used to cycle through Eastville Park ....

I was thinking more of there being a low air pressure region over the valley.
Monday evening there was no smell once you reached cheltenham road, but it reappeared just past the St Pauls roundabout.

Is Wade street the last place the Frome is visible before it re-emerges at the centre ?

.
 
Agreed that the Frome quite often smells minging. The worst bit is by Tesco, and it often looks frothy and horrible as well, although it gets cleaner as it goes towards town.
 
easy g said:
I'm sure I've got an album by them somewhere :confused: :D
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no doubt Bob Dylan could have made something of the hard life of the Frenchay swineherds

the answer is blowing in the wind .....
 
squelch said:
Note::Etnies and dandelion slaughter don't mix on days like this...my poor trainers! :(
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I must try to phone the shop to reserve a second pair for work.

I still desperately need a couple of pairs of semi-reasonable goretex walking shoes (most stop at UK 11 or 12) and my cycle shoes have holes in them (after 18 years of cycling I still prefer to stomp on the pedals so need tread on the instep). The current equivalent of my Shimano shoes are smaller :mad:

edited to say - just found an online source of big hiking trainers,

http://www.bigsize.co.uk/

now what I need is cycling shoes :-

shimano_mp60.gif


my current ones - thin soles with stiffening plate
 
gentlegreen said:
Was it just me, or was there a gawd-awful niff in the air yesterday evening ?

5.30 pm at Frenchay the reak of sour milk was making me gag ...

noticed it again at Lawrence Hill around 10pm so my guess is it was hugging the Frome valley - luckily the rain shower damped it down ...

I heard a rumour it was muck spreading somewhere..

May have been down to the wind that also filled my garden with rubbish from Tesco
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Cloudbuster chemicals.
 
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