It is a strange world
no birds nesting or singing in the trees;
no bellowing, roaring or squeaking savage or small;
no caterpillars to eat the leaves;
no bees or butterflies;
no creatures that do more than crawl.
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Hence
Chapter Three - Waterslain
waterslain - land retentive of surface water, and requiring to be drained Moor’s Suffolk words & phrases 1823
