It will actually be interesting to see if the end result is plain fact - or scattered with stories like that one that may or may not be true. The biggest query regarding pets that our research at Chartwell has come up with is whether he ever had a parrot or not. There are certainly stories and claims about a foul-mouthed example he is said to have had that ended up in a pet shop in Croydon!
David Riddle Chartwell NT volunteer steward Email: dpreey...@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Jul 2015, at 21:41, PatFinn1940 <pfinn2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 [mailto:church...@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf Of Richard M. Langworth >> Sent: 01 July 2015 20:55 >> To: church...@googlegroups.com; dpre...@gmail.com >> 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. >> To post to this group, send email to church...@googlegroups.com. >> 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.
