Carrots and lilacs

I've found a little hard boiled Easter Egg to share from Night Watch that perhaps not everyone might be aware of (I'm sure there are plenty who will be).

So Dai Dickens is coded to be Welsh - being from Llamedos, his name and so on. What's cool is that towards the end of the book it's Dai that suggests the use of lilac to identify their side, recalling the use of carrots in a previous battle. This is a hark back to the story of Welsh soldiers using leeks on their helmets to do the same when battling the Saxons.

So there you go :)