Ingrid is home for a whole ten days. It’s not a week of leave but a week of theoretical studies at home – a 500-page dense brick of a book about “Soldiership in the field” (which you can actually get as a free PDF online), a thinner one about anti-tank grenade launchers, another about working as a security guard at restricted-access sites.

It’s not a week of leave, but at least she can get home-cooked food and pet a cat while studying.