1. Are the pickings pretty good?

2. Description: Blueberries are picked several times as the fruit ripens with 2 to 5 pickings

3. 3 A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.

4. Preparing to interview Cirkut – the Canadian producer, whose real name is Henry Walter – a quick Google delivers slim pickings.

5. 18 Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.

6. 8 Pickings will be still better when the flood-waters abate on the upper reaches of the rivers, near the old gold-mining towns.

7. Appropriately enough, for a term originally used to denote a Scottish halfpenny first introduced in the 16th century, Bawbee (sometimes baw bee) has offered rich pickings for traditional Scots