Turning Over A New Leaf: Episode 18 – ‘In A Dalby Country Garden’

Another day, another public works declared open.

I’ll confess to being very pleased with the fountain, one of the nicest improvements you can buy in the game. It looks nice, makes a lovely noise (although if you suffer from incontinence don’t blame me if it sets you off) and I plan to have it surrounded by flowers.

With space all around it, it will make a good spot next to the village square to encourage the growing of flowers and the transportation of the excess elsewhere around Dalby.

Blathers had plans also to tell me.

No prizes for guessing who paid for the whole damn thing, of course.

Mayor Made Of Bells, as per usual.

No sooner do I pay for it, this happens.

Sigh! Every – Single – Time.

The strange part was that Hippeux wasn’t even around when I was forced to become mayor – he arrived much later.

Conspiracy theorists, feast yourselves on that thought!

As for Dalby’s new civil servant in the museum department, her first day did not bode well. After the ceremony to mark the occasion outside the train station (extend museum – have ceremony at train station – go figure), I popped in to see how it looked, only to find her sleeping on the job.

Don’t go applying for a raise with Isabelle any time shortly, Celeste.

On second thoughts, she’s as bad. Have you both considered careers as Wimbledon line judges?

On the subject of dozy civil servants…

…yes Pete, you said that joke a few days ago as well. It wasn’t funny then either.

Do you notice the line of alternating pansies on the riverbank on the far side?

This is one of my pet plans for Dalby. Both riverbanks will have a line of flowers all the way along them from west to east. There’s a mass pansy bank of the white ones down at the west corner of Dalby, but I cannot get enough of the red and yellow ones I require to complete the chain.

The orange ones that are formed from them being close together are being transferred to outside of Cookie’s home with some of the spare white ones.

As well as looking pretty, having flowers at the riverbank discourages me from running near to it in case I run through and destroy any – increasing the chance of spotting a fish needing catching. If you run next to the river, the fish vanish.

Sylvia meanwhile appears determined to become a flea farmer.

Thus in the Dalby edition of the Itch Factor, Sylvia and Bones have been needing de-fleaed thrice, Kevin and Fauna twice, Camofrog and Lucy once. But this is the first time I’ve ever found anyone having fleas twice in one day.

I’ve also never encountered three of the villagers asking me to help them change what they say. Is it a ripple effect where one of them does so and the rest decide it’s time for a change as well?

Lucy meanwhile had a craving for oranges she wanted me to solve despite a fully laden orange tree right outside her front door. Pigging lazy, that’s her trouble.

Or was it brought on by a visit from Hippeux?

The weird part is he doesn’t even use that wallpaper. Perhaps he’s buying them all up for the sake of good taste to stop anyone from using them in their homes?