Blue rope mooring along the River Cam near Clayhithe.
Blue rope aside, I described the scene as ‘squalid’. J said I was self-satisfied and bourgeois, it was somebody trying to get by in difficult times, and they had bothered to wash their socks. Squalid: ‘filthy and degraded from neglect or poverty’ (Longman Dictionary). OK, messy and untidy, then.