Well, it seems that I may have spoken prematurely in the matter of Churchill’s parrot. The BBC report that the staff at Chartwell, Churchill’s country estate, have gone through their photographs and records and found no evidence that he ever owned a parrot. The Straits Times has a story that Lady Soames, Churchill’s daughter, says the great man only had an African Grey, and that it never talked.
But what about the Norwegian Blue? Beautiful plumage! I’ll have more on this story as events warrant.
