I've been lucky enough to grab a quick half hour on the telephone with Connor this evening. He had lots of news to share. I was interested to know in particular, how they'd conducted Remebrance day today. At 11am this morning, as I was observing the 2-minute silence with hundreds of others, my thoughts were actually with Connor. I imagined that there would be lots of marching, followed by the silence and a lone bugle playing the last post. It turns out that it wasn't actually quite like that and that due to the weather, the junior soldiers conducted their remembrance parade in the drill shed! They're parading in a town somewhere on Sunday, although Connor wasn't sure where.
Tomorrow, Connor's section have Battle PT, which by all accounts is physical training involving belly-crawling through lots of mud! Given the amount of rain we've had recently, I imagine that it will be suitably muddy for them.
He's full of a cold and was sneezing and coughing down the phone. Some of the lads have been really poorly resulting from being on exercise out on the Yorkshire Moors in this dreadful weather. Connor's a tough cookie though and I'm sure he'll survive although I think he's secretly hoping that this weather will last into next week so that his platoon will stay at base instead of going out on manouvres! I can't say that I blame him either :-)
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