Ptui

Originally published: March 3 2010

Once you have a plant with a trumpet, it seems perfectly reasonable to explore all the things you could do with it. It's like that prop game on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway'. How many uses can you get out of a Daffodil?

Razzzzzz

We know a song about that, don't we? Here's Spike Milligan, in a horned helmet that suits him just right, doing 'The Raspberry Song - Everything is Fresh Today'.

Floral Dance

If you don't know the tune, here it is. Imagine, at the so-called height of punk, this was number two in the hit parade in 1977. It was only kept off the top of the charts by Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre.

Guest Star: Sooky Rottweiler

I've been very tardy in responding to Cynthia l'Ecuyer generously giving Smith and Jones an Acadian summer vacation in her strip about a year ago. Here's Sooky Rottweiler's guest spot in mine...

This strip also explains why humans can't hear the parping of the daffodils.

Colonel Bogey

Yes, the music actually is Colonel Bogey. All the notes, not just the ones that fit into an airhorn.

Return of the parping daffodils

Well, it's spring in the cartoon, even if the warm weather hasn't reached the real world yet. Anyone who has linked to my Facebook page will know that I was trapped in my car for five hours last week, trying to get home through a 'snowstorm'. As blizzards go it was pretty pathetic, maybe an inch fell, but it was enough to cause accidents on all the roads into Hastings, and stop the traffic in all directions. I was lucky enough to be marooned on Battle High Street, so the chap in the car behind me did his weekly shop while the traffic wasn't moving, and I popped into a pub for a bit.

If it's spring that means the parping daffodils are back...