muckheap

'But then again we know that playing away from home at Pertemps Bees is a different proposition to playing on your own muckheap in front of 4,000 screaming, rugby-fanatic Cornishmen.

How reasonable is it, for goodness sake, to charge, say, pounds 35 for a round when the course is in its prime in the spring and in the summer, and ask the same amount when it's a muckheap and has 18 temporary greens in the winter?

So you see, I've gone from Queen of the Street, to Queen of the Muckheap. And I like it.

"When you do dung it's nice to do it on your own muckheap"

"When you do dung its nice to do it on your own muckheap" - Ginger McCain on the delights of having winners at his local track

The role, evidently an awkward one, involved patrolling the streets and reporting any nuisances, an onerous responsibility given the common abandonment of muckheaps and other obstructions.