It was about a crazy lady who lived above his flat in Pimlico. She would let pigeons into her flat so she could feed them. Apparently she didn't want her presence in the flat to interfere with the natural behaviour of the pigeons, so she would let them nest and shit in there and she wouldn't
clean it up, because it
wasn't natural to do so. The pigeons would die, but apart from the smell and the sludge and the
gas, the corpses weren't really a problem. It was the rats
that came
to eat them. The rats would eat the rotting pigeon corpses mixed in with the
rotting pigeon shit
and they would get ill and die too. New rats that came through wouldn't mind though, and they'd start to eat the mass, only to get sick and die in it later on. The population grew steadily as more pigeons and rats came from in the cold, to live naturally. They fed the mass further.