Mysterious Odour

I've had a smell this week. It started at the weekend. I thought at first it could be me, because I've been ill and off work and in the house with the windows shut. But then I decided it wasn't me, AND it started getting worse.

You start imagining all sorts of things, like forgotten food festering somewhere. Or dead vermin. I looked (as best I could)... Nothing obvious. I looked harder (as hard as I dared)... Still nothing. The smell continued.

I kept the windows open. I burnt joss sticks. Then I burnt proper incense...and more incense. Still the smell. By which time I was getting a bit frantic.

This morning I found it. It was just that I'd put food in a bin bag that was elsewhere than in the kitchen. Bag gone, smell gone. So glad it was nothing more unbearable !