There's a big mountain of manure been left near by where I live and has sat there for the last 3 weeks. It has now 'gone off' (for want of a better word) and it STINKS.

I mean since it's been sat on the concrete in an unused area it's been rained on, the sun has dried it, it's become wet again, and dried again ... can you imagine how this has made it disintegrate? I didn't think manure could "go off" but I guess that if it doesn't become one with soil and sits as high as a mountain exposed on concrete then something unnatural is going to happen to it.

To give a bit of history, I live close to a local football pitch which has recently had it's grass re-seeded. The manure/fertiliser (whatever this thing is) has done wonders for the pitch which has already returned to it's former glory. But the mountain of excess manure/fertiliser left behind .... FORGOTTEN ... seems to have just degenerated into a pile of stank filth.

Didn't really notice anything to begin with. However, around the beginning of this week, as I was on my way out with my son, we walked past an area which smelled really bad. I mean really REALLY bad. We both said "Pooohh!" in unison. Didn't know what it could be at the time, but once past the offending smell we didn't think any more about it.

That was until we returned home later in the evening. It seemed the smell stepped it up a gear and had taken up a wider area.

So let's say we first identified this foul stench on Tuesday. It is now Saturday and, as you can imagine, it's just humming. I mean it's no longer just a bad smell, it's almost ALIVE and weaving it's way around the whole neighbourhood. You can even smell it from the high street.

Anyway, I was still in the dark as to what could be causing the problem until I heard a passer by say "There it is!" and pointed to a mountain of manure/fertiliser which was sitting in a closed off unused area. And when I say "mountain" I really do MEAN it's a mountain. It's high enough to climb and conquer (not that anybody would want to!).

There are no words that can describe this disgusting odour other than it's like a combination of vomit, excrement and decay all magnified and rolled into one.

Today I have been unable to open any windows because the smell is contaminating my living space (and I live 4 floors from the ground). I can even smell it now and my windows are closed.

Once within smelling distance you see people holding their noses. I just pull whatever garment I'm wearing up over my nose, choosing instead to breath in whatever scent is on my clothing.

So now that I know what the problem is I'm going to contact the relevant bodies FIRST THING.

That pile of poop HAS to go!! Goodness knows what kind of disease it'll end up harbouring.