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1935

Court all the morning. Worked in garden & motored in the afternoon. The Coles came to dinner. They
are quite a nice young couple, he is not I should think very intelligent, but they are both ones own sort,
most of the men in the Political are alright.

Sunday [31st March]

A very big storm in the night, thunder, wind & lightening & rain, it battered my garden about teribly & I
fear it spolit a lot of the flowers. Very busy morning in the office, a meeting about the Khalifah estates,
& then Hewett came to see me about the naval plans. Mohammed also came & talked for hours about
some imaginary illness which as usual he has to produce as his yearly excuse for going away during the
summer. I never know why he takes the trouble to pretend that he goes away for medical reasons. Wrote