RE: [ChurchillChat] Is Churchill Still Relevant?

2016-09-18 Thread Dave Turrell
A virgin white elephant. I love it! Makes me even prouder than ever of my homeland, that we can produce such pachydermatous police powers. From: churchillchat@googlegroups.com [mailto:churchillchat@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of chateaustegosau...@att.net Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 2:

[ChurchillChat] Re: Butterfly update

2016-09-18 Thread Richard M. Langworth
David, Thanks for info. I also realized that the interiors in "Churchill's Secret" were shot at a studio, not Chartwell, so the box of mounted butterflies was a prop. Hugh Newman, son of L.W. Newman, owner of the "butterfly farm" which supplied Churchill after the war, wrote an amusing piece on

Re: [ChurchillChat] Is Churchill Still Relevant?

2016-09-18 Thread chateaustegosaurus
She was very much of the "velvet glove" school.  Whenever she had suspicions of one of her subjects, she would do him the honor of visiting him.  The cost of housing, feeding and entertaining Queen Bess and her entourage would drive the guy almost to bankruptcy.  After a while, she didn't even h