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2/ very hot indeed here now & the breath of the desert wind is just a furnace. We are up at 4 AM and do little or no work between 8.30 AM and 4 PM. Then we get busy again. Our boys are standing it well.
I'm getting brown as a berry again. You'll be tickled to death to hear that we had a couple of cricket matches at Tel el Kibir last month and I carried off the honours. The 6th LH twice defeated the 9th LH. I took 8 wickets for 5 runs in the first match and in the second I top scored with 42 & got the bowling honours with 6 wkts for 10 runs. Not a bad performance considering I had not touched bat or
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