Saturday 17th April 2010
Rents are going up. In fact, as we heard a few weeks ago, they’ve never been so high in London, this great city which throbs at our nation’s heart.
The Multis have bought a 1715 silver cufflink tray for £225 on the strength. See graph below. They were given a free ladle and serving dish by the grateful Lisson Grove antique shop.
The next thing that happens – glory of glory, from their point of view at least – David Cameron is photographed in front of one of their paintings. Where exactly, or why painting there, not disclosed. Must be top secret.
But there has been awful trouble re: pigeons on a balcony neighbouring some of their tenantry. Mad old lady feeding – usual story.
Meanwhile, Anthony Mottram has been in London from Prague. In touch, but not seen by me. Mottram Inc has secured the most prestigious contract. It’s to do with a national outrage you’ll all have heard of and which has been mentioned here by me.
I don’t dare to mention it.
Poor Little Rich Gays, of course, are always at the centre of things.
Poor Mottram engulfed; raving work, consulting, detail, calculations, formulae, troubleshooting, problem-solving, test runs, re-test test runs – all that. He was returning to Prague on Thursday but whether trapped under the ash cloud and still lurking in England’s green and pleasant, I do not know.
Why don’t they fly their planes under the ash? For goodness sake, air travel authorities!
I must phone up Lord Arrowby. I’m sure he’ll be able to issue the required orders.
The Multis' New 1715 Cufflink Tray - £225
The Multis' New 1715 Cufflink Tray - £225
The Multis' Free Ladle and Serving Dish
David Cameron Before the Multis' Artwork by Peter Davies This Week
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We are all hoping that very shortly Mr Cameron will have so little to do that he can spend all the time he likes posing in front of the Multis’ artworks.
Lovely snaps of the cufflink tray. Are the actual cufflinks so beautifully arranged thereon also early 18th-century?
No the cufflinks are their glorious paradoxical trash side
I don’t know how much the Multis paid for them, but they are certainly priceless.
Very covetable serving dish. I seem to recall the Nevil forebears once had something similar, though no doubt long since smashed and riveted.
Nice tray, but as for those cuff-links…. oh dear. Many gays are re-discovering the earlier style of cufflink, each made from two small but decorated pieces joined by a short chain. The modern style (as depicted), where a random colourful object is joined by a rod to a swivelling bar, is terribly mechanical and clunking, in my humble opinion. As well as trashy, as Adrian Edge notes.
How brilliant to have put your finger on the true cufflink. I had just such a pair of my father’s, mother of pearl with a tiny ridged gold rim and a cabuchon sapphire in the middle – but I lost them
My own lack of a good silver tray torments me. But this is more the Landed Gentry side coming out than the Poor Little Rich Gay. I think I forgot to mention that something very odd has happened to my silver candlelabra (self-bought, appallingly). I think Silvia must have dropped it. Suddenly it’s oddly bent and I’ll have to trail to the Silver Vaults in Chancery Lane (Or Cancelleria Lane, as properly known) to see what can be done