Behind the quarry the ground dipped away to a body of water at the woodland boundary, half lake, half pond, fringed by a half crescent of bulrushes.
There is little doubt that smokeless tobacco - the umbrella term that covers chewing tobacco and the more finely ground dipping tobacco - is a health hazard.
Forest are third from bottom and morale at the City Ground dipped even further following Tuesday's FA Cup third-round thumping against Leicester City.
Ume Hassan sits on the ground, dipping her hands in clean water as she kneads the dough.
The property also features an inviting outdoor 10-person spa and heated in-ground dipping pool.
Scarcely any two members of the rank and file on view are wearing identical training kit, with many having appeared to have got dressed in the dark after randomly picking duds out of a training ground lucky dip.
When half a dozen toddlers sit down to lunch on the ground, they dip the home-baked bread in ketchup that has been scraped from the bottom of containers discarded by wealthier citizens.
The girl squats down on the ground and dips her pinky into the juices.
Moving out low over the water, it was pulled so far down by the friction of the several-hundred-meter-long drag ropes against the ground as to dip the basket into the water.
