Strange sayings.

Blame it on galloping senility if you like, I know he will, but I can never remember what I knew & what I've picked up in the 30+years since we came to Penrith. Hell, how long does it take to be thought of as a "local"?
One ex-colleague in the Fire service used to refer to something being
"As full as a Gull's egg". I'm always at a loss to see why a Gull's egg should be any more full than anybody else's.
The same goes for the idea of being ...
"As fat as a fell frog."
If this critter isn't as fat as a fell frog I don't know what is. In fact I wonder if it's Dad had a liaison with a toad, coz I'm sure I've NEVER seen a frog quite that rotund before.
Stranger still is the fact that I know, for a fact, that the greenhouse is populated by another, nearly as big PLUS at least 2-3 others which must be, guessimetrically, last year's. If not they've "certainly grew some" as an American friend of ours once said of my hirsute sibling.