... it wasn't that pub's bathrooms backing up??

...the smell of all the Southerners. I believe the French have been complaining about it for years.

..... no matter how hard they try to cover up and brush it under the carpet, you can smell the stench of NuLabour's activities everywhere.

Stop the BT/Virgin/TalkTalk/Phorm alliance!

... it's not fair the blame ALL of the European land mass. Some clues as to the likely culprits:

1. Who's closest? France

2. Whose inhabitants are better known as garlic munching, cheese eating surrender monkeys? France

3. Just because

Mines the one with the clothes peg and the pair of air freshener sprays in the pocket.

so it wasn't just me then? When I stepped out of the house in my sleepy Chilterns village this morning I assumed there were some farmers muck spreading nearby (hardly unusual in my neck of the woods), what baffled me was that I could still smell it when I emerged from Charing X tube station into Trafalgar square. Weird.

in Central London. Mind you I'm north of Oxford Street so it could be French tourists.

I'm in Bracknell and it smells here in the office. I thought it was just the olfactory drift from the logjam in cubicle two down the corridor. A porcelain device full to the brim. And I don’t think it’s Brown Windsor soup.

You've now been restored?

Well, somebody could light a match. That usually gets rid of stuff in the bathroom. Be aware that at times (with proper mixture) those gases can be explosive.

One match not enough? Try two.

If you want REALLY bad smells, try the feedlot part way down I-5 in California's central valley. No amount of matches will solve that one.

I live in Whitley, and I thought it was the Whitley-Whiff back again. Surprising, given they concreted over the sewer works a year ago.

Glad I'm not going mad - thought I smelled something :(

...and the smell has wafted over to our tiny hamlet.

Paris - Because the lady doth protest too much, methinks.

How unusual!

The locals must have quite a nose for this sort of thing if they can distinguish a niff from hundreds of miles away from the stuff sticking to their tyres.

Eee, it don't 'alf pen and ink!

Ever been to the thames estuary at 5am?

It stinks of amonia as the sluice gates release the sewage into the outgoing tide. It really stinks and popular holiday beaches can be observe condoms and toilet paper floating with the tide. I've seen it and smelt it myself.

Now i live inland; a long way inland

But then again, I'm in New Zealand, a safe distance from any french above the high tide mark...

re : Whose inhabitants are better known as garlic munching, cheese eating surrender monkeys? France

As opposed to the blubbing sailors who keeled over when the nasty Iranians hijacked them.

Oh, those would be the Rosbif surrender monkeys, wouldn't they?

"When danger reared its ugly head

They bravely turned their tails and fled

Brave, brave, brave brave RN etc" (python arr AC)