Another of my 'Northender' series of humorous drawings. The Wash is home to several sand banks which generally 'shift around a bit' and they vary a great deal from being very hard to work on to being very soft to work in.. As cockling in my day was a manual task which required raking the wee beasts out of the sand with a short handled rake, the type of sand was going to determine whether it was your arms or your legs that were going to ache by the end of the tide.
This image is available in card form at True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum, King's Lynn. It also features in their 2012 calendar.
The original framed illustration is also available for sale. Please contact me for details.
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