Fic challenge ; flowery knickers A short contirbution.

[nodbear]

Ok - so I hope this is not too late an entry in the flowery knickers challenge. I certainly don’t have to hope it is silly enough - that bit can be guaranteed !

Always sleep in calico - be you ever so hot - it is a guard against the diseases of this country

Edward Pellew to his son Pownall, on the latter gaining his first command, the Fly

Comments

[eglantine_br]

This is very sweet.

I have welcomed a sailor home, and can honestly say nobody cares what anyone is wearing! But by the second or third day, they might actually pay attention.

Mine always smelled of motor oil, and had a large collection of dirty laundry. I am sure that Susan could relate to that, even if the details differed.

There is an old joke, (I cannot say how old,) that putting down the sea-bag is the second thing he does.

Poor Ned. By virtue of his rank he had to divest himself of baboons and tigers before he even got a hug.

[nodbear]

I bet she could !

she has been reflecting in my next parytof the tiger trilogy on the smells that mean himself is home - tar is one of them:)

[eglantine_br]

Also thinking of Ned thinking protection of his sleeping son. Even after Pownell was grown. Wonderful.

[mylodon]

*nods* You are always seven and a half to your parents.

[eglantine_br]

Realized today--- Jonty said that!

[mylodon]

LOL He stole it off me.

[rikibeth]

Awww, I like this. And Jacques B seems to have taken particular notice of a certain Acting-Lieutenant's eyes!

[nodbear]

Thank you - and yes Jacques has noticed - he does not harb our any designs on Arhchie but hes a frenchman with an eye for all things elegant and lovely

[anteros_lmc]

Awww bless them! Although I fear Jacques is sorely mistaken if he thinks a fair of flowery gossamer knickers will distract Susan from Ned's other homecoming "gifts"!

It's clear that Jacques is already thinking ahead to those lingerie shops they pan to open in their retirement: Licence To Frill, 5 Pellew Arcade, Teignmouth and L'Avenue de Bergeret in the Rue Cambon. ;)

[nodbear]

yes - the bid to outdo Lord de SAumarez !

[anteros_lmc]

Ever it was thus! ;)

[mylodon]

Oh, that's lovely. Pellew must have been of the old school, when you had to wrap yourself up to within an inch of your life to ward off diseases. :)

[nodbear]

Yes well he was brought up by his grandmother of course - but it also has to be said that he was rarely ill if at all until his final illness so he must have been doing something right !