Eric's Last Sports Day

We're going to have to cut Eric some serious amount of slack this week. It's going to be a roller coaster of raw emotion, as there's going to be quite a few "last times" for him to negotiate, as young Bertie dons his Leavers Hoodie to mark his moving up to big school (middle) in September ...... sigh! How on earth did that happen?

Today was Eric and Bertie's very last Sports Day .......

I knew it was going to be hard on both little fella's ........

...... next years Sports Day will be a much more serious affair, set out of the gaze of family, where egg and spoon and chucking a bean bag into a hoop will make way for the more serious sporting pursuits of the javelin and shotput and sack races forlornly relegated to distant childhood memories ........

..... along with the "well done" stickers thrust onto all competitors t-shirts at the finishing line.

Young Eric, I believe, coped admirably under the pressure, he was certainly not found, in any way, shape or form, wanting in his loud and proud enthusiastic cheering and bellowing shouts of encouragement from the side line  .......

....... covering up his innermost sadness bravely when he thought no one was looking ....... rights of passage are not always easy, bless his little cotton socks!