I was plenty happy

The British National Corpus (BNC) can find no trace of this collocation in its bank of millions of words and phrases: http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

got myself into a pot of water

The British National Corpus can only find 7 examples of the phrase, pot of water.

1. had a pot of water simmering
2. placed in a pot of water prior
3. in a pot of water together
4. Put the leaves in a pot of water.
5. was a large earthenware pot of water
6. Think what it costs to boil a pot of water.
7. back of the fire and put a pot of water

From which part of the world did Pumpkin come from with such strange examples of English?