http://localhost:8080/churchills-cat-kryske Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:37:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/churchills-cat-kryske#comment-71314 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:37:02 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=15938#comment-71314 Great days they were Richard!! That 1996 Churchill Society Tour in England remains the finest trip of our 33 years together! We are looking for a contender! Best to you and Barbara!
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Thanks, Paula, and all the best to you both. -R

]]> http://localhost:8080/churchills-cat-kryske#comment-67631 Sat, 12 Aug 2023 02:47:43 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=15938#comment-67631 John my husband and I had several memorable encounters with Jock IV on our 1996 Churchill Tour stop at Chartwell, where we spent part of a day. Having a marmalade cat of our own at home in Dallas, we were charmed to meet Jock IV in the ticket booth. The attendant introduced us, saying, “Jock meets me each morning here in the booth at opening for some fishy sweets.” I again chanced to meet Jock in the gardens a little later where he had taken shelter underneath a flowering shrub during a brief rain shower. I spoke to him in Cat; he listened curiously but did not run. He gave me a short meow back. I relayed a fellow member of our tour, the charming and witty Ann Hazlett, who asked me what I thought Jock was telling me. “How do you know he wasn’t saying, ‘beat it lady!’” We laughed. I believe we caught a glimpse of Jock again in the house toward the end of our self-guided tour. As a cat lover who now owns our second marmalade, it is a cherished memory of my visit to Chartwell.
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Thanks for the memories, Paula; those were great days. WSC, quoting Nelson, the Admiralty Cat: “These humans are very intelligent. I believe they understand quite a lot of what we say.”

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