muck

Last year, the college CEO even stepped in to invigilate an exam: "It's everyone mucking in."

But I was mucking about with this song in my studio at home — this song by the Montgolfier Brothers, “Between Two Points” — and the sentiments of the lyrics just were not working for me.

"People think its all low pay, long hours and muck," she said, "but the truth is very different."

She pointed out that there were "structural abnormalities" in ward drains which allowed stagnation of the water, and nurses had reported "black muck refluxing from the drains back into the sink".

He mucked in and chatted to just about everyone.