Monika, a student at Keele University, developed allergies while living in a damp, mouldy house with poor insulation and a slug-infested bathroom.
In my mind, Sheffield was the mouldy brown sludge of Devvy Green, and the decrepit markets where stocky women stood, wearing raincoats, chain-smoking fistfuls of cigarettes.
One example comes from Edward in Leicester, he battled with mice infestations, bursting pipes and mouldy walls.
The interior of many other tents is mouldy," he said.
Often, as the whiff of mouldy politics wafts from the mainstream parties, the beneficiaries are on the political fringes, notably the far-right National Front.
One of its more aggressive marketing tactics was to buy up stocks of rival cigarettes, hold them until they were mouldy and then sell them on.Despite all these problems, foreign investors continue to pour money into China (even Mr Clissold is still there, now working for Goldman Sachs).
"Just as people who are ill don't grow their own penicillin from mouldy bread," wrote Mr McCaffrey, "individuals can't guarantee the purity and dosage of THC by growing crude marijuana .Marinol has its drawbacks, however.
In the late 1870s and 1880s an attack of mildew tainted the wines: the reputation of Lafite, for instance, was ruined when the 1884 vintage turned mouldy after only a couple of years in bottle.
Investigations have unearthed other horrors: workers at a plant in Osaka were recycling old milk returned from supermarkets, opening up cartons with their bare hands in the sun.Worryingly, Snow Brand is just one of several Japanese food firms that have had to recall everything from mouldy buns to rotten tofu in recent months.
One of them is Sumiko Yoshida, a woman in her 70s who lives with her husband in cramped, mouldy quarters in Rikuzentakata, a fishing port that was washed away by the tsunami.
The government has made clear that it wants the private-rented sector to expand, and as far as possible to regulate itself.Considered from inside the Hamids' mouldy garage, these arguments are not persuasive.
