Monday 24th November 2014

Harry Rollo is part of a matching pair, but the American half, who is named after a quite specialist kitchen appliance, is not as well-known here as Harry is there and would never, for instance, tend towards music then tend away again at exactly the moment the audience is thinking, ‘This IS music.’

But Harry said that every year on his birthday this American team-mate of his – his mother phones up and does an imitation down the phone of the original event. i.e. considerable birth pangs performance. Unusual but a useful reminder, I would have thought.

Otherwise, I dined Joshua Baring, Patrick Lockyer and Robert Nevil at Bethnal Green Town Hall, now a restaurant. There was much talk of someone called Missy who recoiled in horror at the Chinese film RN and Joshua had seen in Streatham the week before even though no sex took place and Joshua said afterwards it was because both the people in the film were 100% b…t..m, an expression RN had never heard before. At one point Patrick talked in Russian. It turns out the Sexual Health Clinic in Soho is like a Design Hotel although NHS. Someone they know had to go there. This someone is someone we know as well, not least because he was in ‘Hello’ the other day but also through a typical Poor Little Rich Gay multi-directional web of connection. Afterwards Robert Nevil said most of the talk of the young people was pure filth. I prodded Patrick Lockyer, who is accused of growing fat, for investigative purposes. Astonishing revelation! He’s rock-solid, has obviously been secretly pumping. Well, come to think of it, one who takes prostrate cancer medication to prevent baldness is not likely to allow himself to run to fat.

Other diners at the restaurant either left or were reduced to little heaps of ash by our talk.

The other big news: it’s nolonger necessary to brown the meat…

Come back later for more.