Head down any muddy lane and you will find a designer, craftsman or food producer doing their bit for the digital economy, and many people have more than one job.

The wats and their communities line the main, paved street, each divided from the next by a muddy lane leading down to the river.

It's the thought that you might meet someone like him up a muddy lane at twilight that keeps the rest of us out of the countryside.

On the other hand, moving to the countryside with its muddy lanes, lack of shops and unfriendly neighbours sounds nerveracking.

A handful of migrants scuffled with police as smoke drifted over the muddy lanes from fires started by departing residents.