Foxhill
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I used to live in an upstairs flat which was above a shop and a guy moved in and started a fishing tackle business. I introduced myself and I thought he seemed ok and everything was fine for a while. It was a shared yard and as I had no front door I used to come in through the back. It was the height of summer and I started noticing an odour. My first thought was that my cats had caught a bird or a rat and it was decomposing somewhere. It gradually got worse until I realised that he was selling maggots without a fridge to keep them in. It continued until I could smell it all through my flat, all the time. He was dumping unsold maggots in the bins out the back and I came home to find that they were crawling out of his door all over the yard where I was drying an onion crop. Needless to say they got in the house until it was so disgusting neighbouring shops and residents reported it to health and saftey. This is why I dont fancy producing flies for the Mantids, too much of a reminder and when I started smelling it in my new house again after keeping the mealworms for Mantid bait Yuck. :no:
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