I would love to read Piers Brendon's book, when it does come out! I hope it includes the story of the phone conversation between Churchill and Field Marshal Alanbrooke--when Churchill was laying in bed and wiggling his toe, and his cat bit it. And Churchill yells out, *'Get off, you bloody fool!!'--*and Alanbrooke hangs up the phone, thinking HE was the 'bloody fool'!!
Churchill loved cats mostly, did he not? I remember reading there was a cat keeping him company in his final days at Hyde Park Gate. Pat Finnegan On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 4:35:53 AM UTC-4, Allen wrote: > > Of course, Piers Brendon is currently working on a book about Churchill > and animals, which may touch on this. > > > > > > > > *From:* church...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > church...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *Richard M. > Langworth > *Sent:* 01 July 2015 20:55 > *To:* church...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>; dpre...@gmail.com > <javascript:> > *Subject:* [ChurchillChat] Re: Churchill's farming activities > > > > David: > > > > Martin Gilbert *Winston S. Churchill, *Vols. 5 and 8, and Mary Soames's *A > Daughter's Tale* are laced with references. Since you are in Westerham > you should dig up a copy of Percy Reid's *Churchill: Townsman of > Westerham*, which also covers farming episodes. Reid was a stringer for > London newspapers who kept an eye on things at Chartwell. Scarce but maybe > available on bookfinder.com. > > > > Three specific articles: > > > > On Alice Bateman and Donkey Jack: > > http://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchills-character-the-common-touch > > > > See also "Guarding Greatness," by 1946-47 bodyguard Ronald Golding: > > Finest Hour 143: > https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-143/glimpses-guarding-greatness-part-i > > Finest Hour 144: > https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-144/guarding-greatness > > > > WSC to Lloyd George: "I am going to make my farm pay, whatever it costs," > *Churchill > in His Own Words, *517. > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0091933366/?tag=richmlang-20 > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to churchillcha...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to church...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
