Highfields Seagull
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Tom Hark said:A Fishboy is a diminutive of Michael fish i.e. the doubting Thomas of the Beeb who authoritatively informed Mrs. Ethel Scroggs, a caller, that 'Ho-ho-ho There4 Won't Be Any Hurricane' a full half dozen hours before every mature tree in Brighton was blown to the ground in Nineteen Eighty Something.
I was reading the other day that Michael Fish was technically correct. It wasn't a hurricane that hit the South Coast in 1987, though admittedly they were very strong winds. Being a heavy sleeper I slept through the lot, and was bewildered to find the neighbour's roof in the road when I opened the curtains in the morning.