And any time he spots a bit of muck -- a recent mishap involving Chaser, his Boston terrier, comes to mind -- he makes a dash for the Euro-Pro.
I mean, I do love Brighton now, but the first time, I just thought, "Oh dear God, that little brown bit of muck is a beach?" There were no sticks of rock and kiss-me-quick hats back in New Zealand but the best fish and chips.
For most of them it is way down the running order: a bit of muck dug up by their (distant) cousins in the "people" press.
If you notice a little bit of muck and dirt on the towel, then you're doing fine.
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A bit of mucking about is fine; too much and it all starts to resemble The Adventures Of Timmy Mallett In Space.
Imagine what a bit of fake muck might do for the popularity of Berbatov, Adebayor et al in the Premier League.
Then she started having a bit of a "muck around" in the ring.
And how could Nabokov dismiss The Magic Mountain, that great 20th-century parable of political blindness, where idealists, such as Hans Castorp, cut themselves off in the rarefied milieu of a sanatorium, only to be thrown into battle, Hans Castorp, his face in the mire, a field awash with death, scattered bits of humanity and muck, having to get up, trudge on and vanish out of sight.
"I'm a bit childish – I kind of muck around all the time," he smiles.
