hatam_soferet: (tea)hatam_soferet ([personal profile] hatam_soferet) wrote,
@ 2012-02-22 05:19 pm UTC
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Daffodils in buckets at $3 per ten, and daffodils are my favouritest flower in the whole world next to sweet peas.*

So I'm buying a few bunches today and a random dude comes up behind me and goes "Ah, daffodils! You must be English!"

Taken aback, I agree that yes, I am indeed English.

"William Shakespeare!" says he. "Beautiful poet! Daffodils!"

"Oh, Wordsworth," I say, because William and daffodils conjours up Beside the lake, beneath the trees &c.

"Yes! William Shakespeare Wordsworth!"

So there you have it. Random encounter with daffodils.



* Closely followed by stargazer lilies, hyacinths, and lilacs, if anyone's keeping track.



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tircha: (tea)


[personal profile] tircha
2012-02-22 10:49 pm UTC (link)
I love daffodils! But am not English! Is this a problem with which I should be grappling?

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[personal profile] furtivepatach
2012-02-23 02:12 am UTC (link)
Dear Americans,
Please stop pretending England is a magical fairyland. It's a real place.
Sincerely,
Embarrassed for all of us

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(Anonymous)
2012-02-23 09:20 am UTC (link)
I think that was the first poem I learnt by heart (and probably the first I forgot).

Phillip M.

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curious_reader: (American badger)


[personal profile] curious_reader
2012-02-25 10:37 pm UTC (link)
I actually thought it was a German thing. Germans are crazy about them and grow them in their gardens.

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