Thursday 22nd April 2010
The Multis love market forces. When and if Mrs Thatcher dies you must be sure to phone them and condole.
But their friends – apart from Prince Dmitri Hersov – all veering the other way! I passed by Elsa Hodgeman’s front window yesterday. You know her, she’s a huge player in the art world, Turner Prize judge, friend of Grayson. Look what I saw! See graph below.
At an excellent lunch on Sunday – outdoors on the wrap-around terrace of the Multi penthouse with the golden heart of money, i.e. Canary Wharf, in view – Lady Newell, 82, outstanding, mahogany-voiced, mother of Elsa Hodgeman, revealed that she had once been persuaded reluctantly to stand as a Lib Dem candidate for Oxford council. Posters started appearing on trees. She wondered who had lost their cat but found her own face peering out. She had to be dragged to the count. She scored an exceptional 119 votes but not enough to win. It is possible that she was elected on a subsequent occasion and has been a councillor for years without knowing it. She still supports the Lib Dems, to the horror of the Multis.
Also lunching, head to toe in purple and lavender, with silver teddy-boy hair, was David Harrison, the artist. Like Eddie Sedgewick, he was brilliant at the table as artists often are. He and Elsa Hodgeman recalled St Martin’s days (it’s an art college). ‘There’s no way Billy Childish ever got kicked out,’ he said. Apparently there was only one person who ever got expelled and not for wanking in the studio in front of some girls. That was all right. It was his art. No, he robbed a bank, got caught, and in his bag was found a severed hand.
That was a bit much, for St Martin’s.
The Multis are in many ways rather proper. But never say they lack range or are not paradoxical.
Elsa Hodgeman's Window
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Has the house been taken over by squatters? It’s surely the only explanation. And even they are hiding behind the shutters in shame at that poster!
Dear Adrian Edge
I delight in your accounts of these two Multis, who own so many tenanted properties and blue velvet suits, but I am puzzled when you say how “paradoxical” they are. They sound to me like fairly standard rich right-wing gays. Am I missing something?
Is it paradoxical to be rich but generous to friends? Or to be right-wing but art-loving? How worrying that would be!
Nicholas, although I have not met the Multis, I can safely assume they are anything but “standard”. Thank goodness. And really, to mention “right wing” twice in one response does rather raise the question of whether you are much fun at all! I do hope you can recover.
Meanwhile, I am aghast at the volcanic ash that has settled on the Mercedes (I know, it is without garage poor thing). Apparently a full valet will not suffice. Surely this is a more pressing worry for PLRGs?!
Khartoum, such defensiveness! Are you assuming “right wing”to be some kind of slur? I doubt the blue-suited Multis would think so.
It’s called right wing bacause it’s right