I will now go on with this again, as I am home again. Likely to be so for some time.

After a week of rain & wind today has been a perfect day. Not a leaf stirring. The air so warm is might be a spring day. The colouring this year is wonderful the leaves have hung on so late, then suddenly in a few days they turned most brilliantly. The beeches in great orchard are marvellous, coming down the coach road. It is a most beautiful sight .

Father had a letter from Bob early in the week, he is still doing transport work, so not in the firing line. He says the mud is fearful.

Our new chauffeur arrived this week he is called Wilcocks, & knows next to nothing of cars, having been a groom in [local] stables. He is learning to drive the car & seems very nervous, at least so Arthur says. I have not yet been driven by him.

Yest. D & I went to Marystowe, we had a lovely walk back after tea.

Heard there that Cicely Baring Gould is engaged to Frank Tinlay