Sunday 10^th April 2011

Teeming! Just teeming with events, thoughts, projects, lists, engagements…

So much to tell and so little time.

Just let me say – I avoided breakdown. On Friday I was near, from the burden of the home, after Miroslav had been here painting the kitchen cupboards but also getting their yellow paint on the kitchen floor and inflicting masking tape injuries on that same floor, as well, of course, as covering the entire house in dust.

But what is a Poor Little Rich Gay to do? We are expanding economies. If we don’t grow, we die. Standards must rise and rise as the life goes on.

We can never stop, but not stopping we could explode.

This morning in the back garden, weeping with tasks. There was a family in the neighbour garden, just sitting, yapping, doing nothing. Extraordinary. Then I thought: I must have some pleasure, there must be some stillness. To start with nothing happened. Nerves throbbed on. Then, after an hour or so, slowly a little better: I think: ‘Those tulips are quite delicious, like a pudding’ and ‘What shades of green in the Springtime!’

So I will recover the kitchen floor. I’ve got the diluted paint mixed up for the task.

I think it’s territorial. Poor Little Rich Gays are never really satisfied with the work of others, as carried out in their homes. We’ve got to have a go at it ourselves. As soon as the cleaner’s out the way, I always put the duster round a bit myself; then perfection sets in.

But, look, I’ve got to rush. Apart from everything else, I’ve had a spate of being required at the last minute. As the Photo Multi never fails to say, ‘The truly powerful are always available.’ In fact four last-minutes came in last week, when only two items, Harry Rollo’s new performance piece, and Prince Dmitri Hersov’s dinner, were officially diarised.

So much for the intended quiet week.

Now I must dash, last minute, for the Multis. But oh! the immensity to tell: Val’s pimped a suit, Prince Dmitri’s crackling, Harry Rollo’s perf with satellite link from California, the Photo Multi’s exclusive seeds…

A Bizarre But Not Hideous Tulip Ensemble At Last: Professor Roentgen (Orange) and Honeymoon