So Flora put on her green wellies and Jane her black ones, and they marched out over the hills.
After two and a half hours in the rainforest, we emerge onto modern Tarmac, right where we started, next to the rows of clean green wellies.
Gates claims that its gumboots - made from natural rubber - are an altogether greener welly.
The spectators, just a few dozen in all, look up from beneath their tweed caps and cease shuffling about in their green wellies.
Karl seemed to quite get into those green wellies.
He escaped with gardening equipment worth £300 including three pairs of green wellies.
From around the corner of the barn approached a man in a shapeless brown tweed hat, a black overcoat, and green wellies.
There are dog walkers aplenty, most in green wellies, and these guys, with their dogs in coats.
'You'll have to get Nicola some suitable green wellies,' she suggested nastily.
Many of them are ex-socialists and their green wellies have red linings.