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1945

Another holiday, a spate of them & quite useless as one cant go away anywhere, nore was there any service
here as there should have been.

Spent the whole day in the house "going over" drawers & papers & putting things tidy, I flatter myself that
everything is tidier than for many years. Turned out all the boxes & trunks & discarded a lot of rubbish.
Bird came over to discuss the naval case. In the evening to a party at the Goldsworthys & then to a hurried
dinner with Commodore & a very long tiresome movie about merchant navy which I did not like at all.
Warm day.

Monday 20th August

Fort, office & customs.

Went to see HH after tea, he was in quite good form, discussed the Jufair accident case about which he had
heard, also the War & my going on leave. He was very amicable, then to a big cocktail party at the Agency,
a pleasant affair, in the garden & a strong shamaal blowing so cool that I slept indoors without a fan, it shows
what difference a Shamaal makes.