Possible Clues:

• Dad succeeded inflating tyre: delightful!
• Edenic
• Capital fellow digesting notice, full of bliss
• Blissful soldier is embraced by youngster on return
• In capital, notice a lake that's heavenly
• Friend eating a salad ingredient — almost heavenly
• In city of romance notice not quite everything's idyllic
• Perfect son, having punctured tyre, approaches father
• Like heaven or Eden