I have followed the advice of the nice people at Hotbin and the top of my hotbin smells nice and wholesome; it is warming up and it feels like I am finally becoming someone who Can Compost.

I know this is my fault – but the bottom is still very smelly and full of flies and vile smelling fluid! Where does it come from? I drain it off every day at at time when I don’t think the neighbours are in their garden. I can’t face a conversation about how I have failed at composting. I know this will get better and gradually stop but at the moment…