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.