00:00And he developed this lifestyle, which meant that he got up at about 10, and then he'd have a cabinet, if there was a war cabinet practically every day, and that was at 11 o'clock, I think, and then he would have lunch, and he would have a very good lunch, and he'd have a glass of champagne, and a glass of white wine, and a glass of brandy, probably at the end of it.
00:24And I remember him saying, I have taken much more out of drink than drinkers taken out of me, and by which time, he not unnaturally wanted to go and have a lie down, and he went, and he used to sleep every afternoon, he used to get into his pyjamas, into bed, and he would sleep every afternoon for two and a half hours, and he would wake up, and he would work through till three in the morning.
00:49So, this was the only way he could manage it at his age.
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