Bill and Ben

Bill and Ben, Wilden Marsh twins, have decided it’s too cold to cross North Pond this morning, so the herd has left these nesh youngsters to fend for themselves. The twins have spent the day lolling about and doing nothing useful.
Posted on November 22, 2018 By Michael Griffiths
Bill and Ben, Wilden Marsh twins, have decided it’s too cold to cross North Pond this morning, so the herd has left these nesh youngsters to fend for themselves. The twins have spent the day lolling about and doing nothing useful.
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They’re busy doing nothing doing it all day long.
That’s it. They are back with the herd now. Little scamps!
Disgraceful. Anyone would think that they are old age pensioners like me.
I know! They will have to buck their ideas up if the want to stay on the marsh.
If I pensioner like me can cross North Pond on a cold morning, so should they.
In the end I opened the corridor gates so that they could take a dry route back to the herd.
Very thoughtful.
They have a job to do, Tom – time away from the herd at 5 months of age is nonproductive.
“nesh youngsters” … I have learned a new word 🙂
Did you look for “nesh” in a dictionary, Anne?
I did – I love finding new words 🙂
This would make a pretty Christmas card.
There were many Christmas card views on the marsh yesterday, Emily.
I had to look up nesh. “Nesh is an English dialect adjective meaning ‘unusually susceptible to cold weather’ and there is no synonym for this use. Usage has been recorded in Staffordshire, the East Midlands, Lancashire, North Wales, South Yorkshire and Shropshire. There is a similar term nish used in Newfoundland.” I am nesh. It is below freezing here.