What side left or right on my pyjamas?
Mock you may... but the kid's a good'un I tell you !
As Joe said he's bound to turn up again sooner or later. Either as a criminal revisiting the site of his last crime, or disguised as Winnie the Pooh again because he got booted out, or as a debonair 2eme pompe.
Always a chance he'll turn up as the night jumper's mum of course, but we'll deal with that if it hits us.
Anyway - from memory Thursday (or Friday) is the EV intake from Paris, so if he didn't make it at Nogent we should hear from him before the end of this week (always assuming he actually went in - which he did of course).
If he gets to Aubagne, anything between 4 days to 4 weeks is possible before his fate is known, and assuming he goes rouge (as he will) we could hear from him again as soon as next February.
Gotta say - Castel is f@cking horrible in Oct/Nov/Dec despite it being down south. Those lovely raid marches over the snowy hills and dales in January are a joy to behold at -6C!
Anyway - he may turn out to be the section's fat kid (as you pointed out with his Billy Bunter belly) and he'll be used as the Kroney carrier.
Everybody has a use in the world