Marketing smells... >;P

...and has done for a few days now (well, their kitchen anyway)...the bad thing is, for most of today, the foetid reek has been so strong that it's managing to pervade the department where I sit too...initially I thought someone was enjoying a particularly smelly egg sandwich (and was perfectly happy), but the smell didn't go away...after ten minutes or so people were jokily accusing one another of "eggy guffers" etc. but now it rather looks like we are going to have to put up with it too...wonderful... :(

I spoke to the building maintainence chap and (after "Oh don't you start!") he said he's had everything out of the kitchen he can physically move and found absolutely nothing (he was hoping to find a dead mouse...yes, it's *that* kind of smell)...the current thinking is that something has got into the water heater and is rotting away in there (which would be potentially disasterously bad news for those people that have made cups of tea using it)...but if that turns out to be a blind alley (I would expect a cooking rodent aroma rather than a rotting rodent aroma if he were correct) the next thing to do is to "rip the whole lot out"...nice...

(7/7 later, got quite a bit to finish off reading)...