Mom’s New Redesigned Blog and Churchhill!
Mom has moved her blog over to Wordpress and I have to say that it looks really nice. She selected a very handsome design. She’s also totally fallen in love with the Wordpress interface. Clean, easy to use, and really facilitates frequent blogging.
Mom just read Paul Johnson’s excellent biography of Winston Churchill, Churchill. The book reminded her of a wonderful family story that I’d never heard before involving Churchill and my great grandfather:
My grandfather loved to read and often sent his copy of a favorite book to the author to be autographed. This he did with Churchill’s The Unknown War—one of the books from Churchill’s Five volume history of the First World War. Grandfather didn’t hear and didn’t hear from Churchill but didn’t think too much about it because after all Churchill was a busy man. Then much later, Grandfather received his book autographed by Churchill with a note of apology and explanation that he had been carrying the book when he has hit crossing a street in New York City.
The entire post is well worth the read. Plus, you have to check out Mom’s new blog!
Speaking of Churchill, don’t you think the baby Slatrat is a dead ringer for Winnie? The only thing missing is the cigar!
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Favorite Churchill story:
Churchill and Lady Astor were continually feuding over differences in political philosophy. The feud got very heated on occasion. Lady Astor never missed a chance to try to publicly insult Churchill. And Churchill never let her escape one of these encounters unscathed.
As we know, the good PM enjoyed a stiff drink now and again. At a state dinner, Lady Astor believed she found Sir Winston a bit tipply, and loudly announced, “My dear Prime Minister, I believe you to be quite drunk!”
To which he turned, smiled, bowed and said, “Indeed I am, Lady Astor, and you appear to be quite ugly. However, in the morning, I shall be indisputably sober.”
Churchill is one of my favorites.