It's daffodil time!

[hatam_soferet]

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.

Comments

[tircha]

I love daffodils! But am not English! Is this a problem with which I should be grappling?

[furtivepatach]

Dear Americans,
Please stop pretending England is a magical fairyland. It's a real place.
Sincerely,
Embarrassed for all of us

[(Anonymous)]

I think that was the first poem I learnt by heart (and probably the first I forgot).

Phillip M.

[curious_reader]

I actually thought it was a German thing. Germans are crazy about them and grow them in their gardens.