Mouthwash

Adapted from an old Millie strip.

Return of the daffodil

Parp!

Originally published: March 5 2010

Many commenters have suggested that the Parp noise the daffodil makes is essentially a fart joke. Nope. It's not that I'm above fart jokes, I'll employ them from time to time, but its used here because it's a plant with a trumpet. What other noise could it possibly make?

St David's Day

Originally published: March 1 2010

This is the first appearance of The daffodil in this strip. I just planned to use it this once to celebrate St David's Day, but then I remembered the daffodil I'd introduced in Millie as a companion to Des the Weed, other ideas started developing, and it all sort of grew from there.

Jones has a tendency to nibble plants that she borrowed from the real Smudge, who would eat anything green and growing that she could find. Whenever Linda got a bunch of flowers we'd have to display them in a vase on top of the highest bookshelf in the house, somewhere near the ceiling, as that was the only place she couldn't reach.