A March Hog needs no cleaning. Springtime hogs want to be out on an adventure.
Not hot tubs, but a dig in de porridge trough and a roll in the mud.
Earthy definitions..... you can dig your burrow down to the deepest essence, muffle a word, plant a tree, climb a mountain, fill up a hole in the the road and have a sturdy meal or a stout drink. Build your Chapel.

......................Pick and choose and beware of quicksands.

*Voting till Monday 21. Open to submitters, subscribers, invisibles, guests and spiders.*


a) archaic Scots term for whole oats cooked with beer and butter.


b) a patch of quicksand (or similar) between the hillocks of swamp.


c) a drink made with water or "small beer" and rum, which was introduced into the Royal Navy in 1740. Pronounced grog


d) a geological land feature formed by an oceanic eddy; when the sea level recedes the depression left behind is termed a grough


e) to speak a muffled word into ones hand as if to cough.


f) to plant something again or in a new place


g) a small burrowing North American marsupial, related to the opossum


h) (pronounced "grok")-to understand thoroughy and completely, to the deepest essence. A Martian word, coined by Robert Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land; it became a cult word in the Science Fiction world in the 1960s.


i) mounteneering a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor; a peat hag


j)a road surface marked with potholes


k)a method of stone construction which produces a vaulted ceiling.