As it happened, the smell vanished as soon as the place warmed up, and it was her husband who performed all the tasks: lighting the stubborn Rayburn stove and forcing open the kitchen window, activating the bathroom plumbing and disposing of the broken-backed mice in the traps.
After last year's closure of the last venue for playing Two-Up in Broken Hill amid declining numbers of players, the council now wonders if it backed the wrong horse.