Food-rich water
Here's to hoping the future will see the ocean still full of food-rich water.
'Its dredger-bucket mouth agape...
The bounteous sea
In an age of over-fishing I like these two triologisms suggesting cornucopian fish stocks. Firstly, a reference to the brightness of...
Rubber-suited whale
Puffins are lovable partly for their curiosity and quirkiness. Here Nicolson imagines them trying to figure out what manner of...
Elver (or yelver)
'... waited for loach or beetle or shrimp or elver or troutling.'
Ever wondered what the term is for a...
As wise as …
George Eliot's Adam Bede has two characters who use language vibrantly and robustly, one of whom is the proud and...
Meat or fish?
On a delightful 20th century Odyssey to Ithaca, Golding is offered the choice of fish or meat. He explains what...
Swimming in circles
A fine simile for a wife who after a good stretch of marriage, still presses all the wrong buttons with...
Dredger-bucket mouth
You can see this gaping maw hoovering up all in its path.
'Its dredger-bucket mouth agape for the...
Fish-haunted seas
Loved this sense of ichthyo-abundance in seas now widely depleted of fish stocks. And the idea of a gift for...
Flapping not floundering
Living pancakes, flapping not floundering.
‘He emptied the bucket into the creek, and the two little flounders...
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