It appears that in the latter half of the 1940s he had an Airedale Terrier called Tomka. As that particular breed originated in Yorkshire your sun-crazed mind wasn’t too far off.
A woman writing about her life in the early 20th century, and a proposed job as cook, in Yorkshire:
"I could imagine Yorkshire. I visualized some spot right in the middle of the moors, and me stuck there with old Sir Walter and lady Gibbons [her employers].
I disliked the country in any case, for when you've seen one cow, or one tree, you've sent them all in my opinion. A cow's got four legs, a tree's got branches, but they don't do anything, do they?
I like talk, people and things that move around with a purpose."
A woman writing about her life in the early 20th century, and a proposed job as cook, in Yorkshire:
"I could imagine Yorkshire. I visualized some spot right in the middle of the moors, and me stuck there with old Sir Walter and lady Gibbons [her employers].
I disliked the country in any case, for when you've seen one cow, or one tree, you've sent them all in my opinion. A cow's got four legs, a tree's got branches, but they don't do anything, do they?
I like talk, people and things that move around with a purpose."
You’re a hundred years out of date, David, and about ten weeks too early!
Greetings to all fellow Yorkshirefolk and all the wannabes, which should be everyone else!
Might have looked like an overturned police car and a bus engulfed in flames, but ‘twere really just kids who couldn’t wait to celebrate this momentousest of days!
And the great guitarist John McLaughlin, who came to NYC in 1969 and immediately played on Miles Davis's landmark In a Silent Way (and many others by Davis), churned sheer energy with The Tony Williams Lifetime, launched The Mahavishnu Orchestra, dazzling the world with jazz virtuosity, rock volume-plus, intricate time signatures, and Indian influences.
