There was a warm sweet scent from the tidy muck heap.

Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she didn't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap, but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins, so she spent the rest of the night throwing up.

We have not yet run out of food and the young son of one of the guests provided some unexpected entertainment by tumbling from the hayloft and breaking his fall in the muck heap outside the stable.

There has been a truce between us, he and I. We do not exchange chit-chat, but as you note, we present ourselves as joint rulers of this muck heap.

This then decomposes very quickly on a muck heap.

If the muck heap is miles away it all adds up to precious minutes when you're doing your horse before going to work.

The manure carts had come to take away the day's muck heaps.

At 02:57 11th Jan 2012, honour123 wrote: For the past few evenings we have seen a pair of bats swooping around our muck heap.

Improvements to hygiene were also imposed upon the inhabitants with the forced removal of muck heaps from the houses and the banning of swine.