136 Wed Mar 3 Went up to the Corp Parade ground this morning at 9.15 & only found 2 or 3 men standing about instead of a Parade of 17. So I was just preparing to curse hard at the men for unpunctuality when Porter came up, saluted gravely, "Company Present sir!" So I looked round & saw 3 men standing in a lovely straight line, rigidly at attention! I found we provide guards today & have also rather an abnormal no. of sick.
So I amused myself & then wrote Morse, Semaphore & a Lecture on Messages.
As the Parade was to be still further reduced in the aft. by the absence of another man, I washed it out and slept instead till 4.0 when I went to the club and played 3 very lanquid sets with Vesian?? There I heard that the AD.M.S. has been round today & insists on camp for the infected as soon as poss -- which washes out Benares???
After tennis I subsided into a cozy chair in the reading room with "Blackwood's". About 6.0 Cotton poked his nose in "Chumies??? you blighter?" "Right oh!" So about 6.30 we started & played on till nearly 8.0.
At Mess I heard that Camp cannot possibly start till Sunday owing to transport difficulties so I decided to go to Benares after all & succeeded in persuading Cotton to do ditto.
Result a rush back to the Bungalow after Coffee a hasty pack, and change and then