Treats for troops

One of my best university friends is serving in Afghanistan for six months at the moment. He has been part of the Territorial Army for years and it has been a longheld ambition of his to engage in active service. I am so happy that he is pursuing his passion, but I do feel nervous about him being out there. 

One of the main shared interests is sugar - both of us have ridiculously sweet teeth! I decided that a crate of candy would therefore need to wing its way to his BFPO pronto:

I stuffed a shoe box full of M&S's finest confectionary up to the maximum weight limit (2kg) for armed forces delivery and trundled off to the post office to deliver my parcel.

He is back in March - I am sure whether this will keep him and his army pals going until then, so there may have to be another sucrose-saturated package in another month or two.