For the past couple of weeks I have been getting this occasional whiff of really bad stank in the kitchen. Now and then it’s lead me to quest for the source, but until this heat wave hit I had no luck finding it. Then it got hot. Really hot. And the occasional whiff turned into the omnipresent stench. So this weekend I tore the kitchen apart trying to find it. In the back corner of the cupboard beneath the sink I found a lovely example of rattus deadus stinkus (that’s warner brothers latin for dead stinky mouse) stuck to a mouse trap I put in there about 2 years ago. It wasn’t pretty. I almost took a photo of it to commemorate my solving of the great stink mystery but I figured I’d spare you 😉