There are compensations: we have time, we have space, and the countryside is stunning, and, er... well, if you see a sheepish-looking couple sitting in a warm, cosy Shepherd's Bush pub later in the year, a few traces of mud round their boots, looking a little sadder and a little wiser than is usual in someone of that age, that will be us.
After having carefully cleaned externally the organisms and eliminated the residual traces of mud, encrustations, epiphytes, and epizoa, mussels were aseptically prepared for analysis in accordance with a standard procedure [ 15].
Wash the hiking boots in warm, mild soapy water to remove all traces of mud and dirt; you can use a rag to wipe over the boots.
His elbow rested on his hard hat; a line of mud traced the side of his cheek.
Although the rhino had been thought to be extinct in Kalimantan since the 1990s, in March 2013 World Wildlife Fund WWFF) announced that the team when monitoring orangutan activity found in West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, several fresh rhino foot trails, mud holes, traces of rhino-rubbed trees, traces of rhino horns on the walls of mud holes, and rhino bites on small branches.
"Of mud?" asks his friend.
Mud volcano, mound of mud heaved up through overlying sediments.
The mud of mud season isn't merely waterlogged dirt.
