Having just had two weeks of the parping daffodil in Smith, meet his progenitor in Millie, Des the weed. He was introduced in the previous year when Richard first built his window box, and he was to return every spring afterwards.
The real reason Des got invented was because I wasn't allowed to have a cat in the strip - and after a few months of solid real-world storylines I occasionally needed to let rip with the bit of hard core whimsy of the kind that only animal characters will let you get away with.
It's interesting to see what comics editors will let you get away with. In the fifth strip, the phrase 'Oh go pollinate yourself' was passed without a murmur. However, I did get a phone call from the comics editor asking whether 'vacuole' was a rude word.
Lol. Did the Daily Mirror not have a proper dictionary handy then?
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