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He looks remarkably chipper considering he's probably seen this time of day only once or twice in the past seven weeks.

Annual Photo opp. with his mum and his wee big sister. Seems a mere heartbeat away that he was marching off in his shiny size 5s (small) with brown leather satchel perched neatly on his shoulders; slouched off today in his 9.5s (hobbit) with adidas bag hanging somewhere around his midriff.

Hope it was a pain-free first day back bud.

Popped into badminton for an hour with this lot on the road back tonight, came out to the rain absolutely chucking it down and got proper drookit climbing the brae home. Definitely felt like the beginning of the end that did.