Thursday 23rd May 2013

Chelsea Flower Show yesterday. You’ll have to wait. Aunt Lavinia, Laura Malcolm and Matt Driver were the party. Glamour. Matt came direct from presenting to Kraft in a hotel at Marble Arch. On the weekend, they stalked a long-time-no-see (language!) friend in the Arundel neighbourhood and ended up with Glyndebourne tickets.

Lord Arrowby embraced Chelsea on Tuesday. Robert Nevil, of course, took the President’s Luncheon on Monday. As always, Poor Little Rich Gays, despite complete absence of normalcy, throb at the core of the world.

Meanwhile, I offer a panoramic view of Poor Little Rich Gays here and globe-wide. Harry Rollo, the performance artist and impresario  regained London 1st class from Australia and was texting for builders within minutes of reéntre to his apartment. Cabin luggage not even released from the hand and he wanted a complete refurb. In Australia, accompanied by Mercury, Mr Kitten, his performances tended more towards music, although a retired soprano delivered her lines in a singing style but speaking, with line and tune not found and strange annunciation as if English never spoken before. It was meant to be like that. At the same time she did origami and tended a cement mixer. Harry is interested in the earliest times, before there were people but all the elements were in place, waiting to form.  All the same, he loves decor and shopping.

Now Lord Arrowby has been texting. You may recall he is my former part-time love interest and has now got a lovely little job behind a small door in Whitehall, absolutely at the heart of things. He writes down what they all say. He was asked onto Newsnight, but quite refused to appear. It was during a perf of ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ last Friday where he was with that hot go-er, Guy Bostock. But Lord Arrowby was texting throughout, either to Newsnight or me, refusing in all cases. No to Newsnight and no to Trooping the Colour. He was offered a special view from a Government room but said No, it would be too chilly. I said, ‘What about your plus one? Perhaps you could issue a correction memo to the effect that you will be attending after all, and your plus one will be… Adrian Edge, of the Poor Little Rich Gays…’

It is true that the greatly-craved, classic Poor Little Rich Gay full diary is achieved by will-power mainly. But, on the other hand, as we know too well, once a Poor Little Rich Gay has made up his mind…