Goodbye and Good Luck!

Well, today's the day.  My baby has flown the nest and is on his way to his new life at the Army Training College.  I wish that I'd been able to take him there but his Dad really wanted to do it and as it happens it's probably for the best because I would only have been upset and then he'd have been embarrassed and so on.  He's not allowed any contact with home now for the next six weeks after which time he comes home on leave for a week.  It should coincide roughly with half-term week.  It's not so bad for him really as he's going with two other local lads who he went to school with.  They've also gone into the fusiliers so at least he shouldn't feel too lonely.