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Thursday - 26th June. This P.T. in the morning is a fine thing. I have now quite a good instructor in the Coy, a young Corporal, called Spatz (not to be confused with Spitz) who I sent on a P.T. Instructors course in Egypt, for 4 weeks. But I must say I hesitated a few days before beginning it. All the men go on it irrespective of age - & I fixed the age limit for the officers at 35, so as to catch everybody. I was a bit loth to go on it myself on account of the early start, as I normally go to bed pretty late, being usually kept going until about 9.0, & then I write to you. But I felt I had to set the example, & now I am very pleased that I did. We do P.T. from 6-45 to 7-10 & then trot down to the sea & go right in. It is really lovely at that time of the morning - the sun gets up about 5-0 & P.T. is done in bathing slips. I am really fitter, & healthier now than I have been for years. I have changed my second bathe of the day to 6-0 p.m. - this allows me to do more work in the afternoon - & fits in nicely with the 7-0 o'clock news. I have now stopped wearing any bathing shorts - it is far pleasanter just to go in naked. This raft is about 150 yards out, & I go there & back twice a day - & so am swimming 600 yards every day.

This Court Martial business is becoming almost a regular part of my work. It is extremely interesting in many ways, but it does mean so much extra work - both reading up & preparing for the things- & then having to catch up in my own work after wards. On Monday, I had to preside over one on