All we need now is Catarrhal Affection...

[anteros_lmc]

Had to keep daughter off school today as she had a raging temperature this morning. By the afternoon, following several doses of calpol and a snooze on the couch, she had fully recovered and was jumping around the living room dressed as a pirate.

Partner, who happens to be a nurse, wrote an absentee note for her teacher this evening. Rather than saying "she had a temperature" daughter's sick note pronounces that she had "pyrxia". I didn't even attempt to explain why that made me laugh like a drain....XD

Comments

[esteven]

So pleased to read that daughter recovered so fast. Seems to be going round a bit. Son of my friends' neighbours had a temperature and after medication and a long nap was fine again in the evening to hug the Labradors.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Daughter had recovered sufficiently rapidly to be jumping around the living room dressed as a pirate by late afternoon! It has taken her till now to recover her appetite though :/

I should have pointed out that pyrexia is rife in Hornblowerfandom, following the discovery that a historical Archie Kennedy of HMS Victory was signed on to Beatty's sick list with "pyrexia with catarrhal affection". This discovery sparked a ridiculous spate of "snot fic":

Pyrexia by mylodon
Cabin Fever by nodbear
Reciprocity by anteros_lmc
Poems, eggs and ashes: documents in the Pyrexia trilogy by nodbear

[esteven]

Oh!
Thank you for the links to certainly wonderful fic. They will be archived at A03? *g*

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

*cough* Yes, they should be archived by the end of the.....decade ;)

[esteven]

Only nine more years to go!
Brava!
*g*

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

You have shamed me into action :} I uploaded some fic today! Goodness only knows when I'll get round to uploading the rest, but I was very impressed with the site's functionality.

[esteven]

*g*
Thanks for the link. I have subscribed to you at AO3 so that I will know whenever you upload a fic. :D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Oh heck! That means I have to upload the rest now doesn't it?! :}

[esteven]

*sniggers*
:D

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Aye, her temperature had disappeared by the end of the day but it's really only today she has started eating again. Hasn't stopped her running about like a mad thing though!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Dr Clive concurs.

Pyrexia is rife in Hornblower fandom as I explained to esteven above.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Well, y'know, it keeps us off the streets ;)

Considering Hornblower himself is such a miserable git most of the time it really is a remarkably silly fandom!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Huzzah indeed! The silliness of the fandom seems to be in inverse proportion to the seriousness of the canon :)

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

Yay - pyrexia ! excellent stuff - not excellent that toots wsa sick of course :(

but as we know it is an inspiring fever !

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Partner was astonished when I pointed out that daughter's teacher might not know what pyrexia was. I didn't explain where I'd come cross the term before ;)