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National Whelk Day
Going: bilbobarneybobs, Flowerpot, Jessie, Mighty Nibus, Green Spanner, cs192, Wasp Box, Mushroom, Wobbly Bloke, Prof UnderCover, Rev. Jesse., RiffRaff, skeltonator, mictoboy, flatfrog, Cae1, Geoff the Clownfish, Ttssattsr, Nobody Likes, barryheadwound, ClanSoul, Shlvng (22 people).
and I shall wear mine with pride.
( , Thu 3 Apr 2008, 15:00, Reply)
Bent double, like old periwinkles under rocks,
Knock-pseudopods, coughing like anenomes, we cursed through sand,
Till on the haunting waves we turned our shells
And towards our distant reef began to slime.
Whelks marched asleep. Many had lost their eyestalks
But slimed on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the bubbling
Of tired, outstripped oysters that dropped behind.
( , Thu 3 Apr 2008, 15:55, Reply)
i moved from Hastings (BEST WHELKS IN THE WORLD) to the hague in holland and have discovered that whelks don't exist over here, i've been hard-pressed to even find someone who knows what they translate as.
It's sickening.
( , Thu 2 Oct 2008, 11:49, Reply)
but it's important that Whelks have their own day!
( , Mon 6 Oct 2008, 10:13, Reply)
But who thinks of the barnacles, that's what I want to know? And the limpets that stayed on the shore, waiting?
( , Tue 14 Oct 2008, 9:38, Reply)
and at Wigan Pier, we will remember them.
( , Thu 6 Nov 2008, 8:59, Reply)
and I'm spending the rest of it wet and ready for action.
Never forget!
( , Mon 10 Nov 2008, 11:39, Reply)
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