[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes Less...I remember those days....and the Aspidistra sat in a huge ugly pot on top of the singer treadle sewing machine....used only at Christmas...or for a funeral....back then the coffin with the deceased in it was put into the front room the night before the funeral.

Oh Less....don't tell me that you had some kind of corpse in there(a dead rodent) surely not.....a corpse smells far worse than the most rancid sock.
Believe me...in my time I have come across rancid old socks(tramp admitted to the medical ward with toenails grown through the soles of his boots springs to mind)....not a smell that is easy to forget.

It wasn't Stinking Bishop cheese...left over from some evening soirée was it?
No....I give up!