[…] spending his summers along the Penobscot River and the rocky coastline, fussing with boats, hunting for clams, fishing for quoddies.

Where are you going for your holidays this year?

an overconstructed joke

About once a year, and generally after the six o'clock news (query for B.B.C. experts — is the six o'clock public more gullible?) a Very Big Noise has reported that, after the n — nth or n — plus — oneth year of the war, the health of the nation is yet again better than ever.