DAY 169 (Thursday 05 January 2012)

There was a Bhund today so that meant no vehicle movement and the shops were well and truly shut, so Charlie couldn’t go out to do any shopping if he wanted to, fortunately we had plenty of food in the house, also because of the Bhund, the new Gurkha recruits (this is the first lot that had arrived as they are due to fly to the UK on Saturday evening and that is when the second lot are due to arrive to start their process to move to the UK on Mon 9 Jan 12) that had just had their Attestation parade arrived during the early hours, this was now the start of their journey back to the UK to begin their training to become trained Infantrymen.

The Bhund ended at 1500hrs which was good news as that meant we could have vehicle movement and people could get out and about without the fear of being attacked.