The brown mud of its banks was a rich text of bird prints, and my boot marks joined the tracks of heron, cormorant, gull and egret.

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"I'm told his breeding is good for the mud, " Brown said.

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Lately, the mercury has crawled up into the 40s, turning hard-packed ice into an endless brown sea of mud.

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Brown used the Mud Pond waterway across Brandreth land despite the landowner's no-trespassing sign and cable across the stream.

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When going for a conservative, professional appearance, stick with basic black or brown dress shoes that are free of scuffs or caked mud.

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He smiles as we encounter what he terms 'a Balinese tractor': another farmer, this time attempting to guide two small chestnut-brown cows and a plough through freshly harvested land, knee-deep in mud and water.

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Each side had a man dismissed in that last encounter, while Diouf, Brown and Celtic manager Neil Lennon engaged in a bit of tit-for-tat mud-slinging in the days that followed.

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