{"id":1010,"date":"2010-04-04T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2010-04-29T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T17:05:20","slug":"a-pre-pascalpassover-dinner-belatedly-for-the-blond-multi%e2%80%99s-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"A Pre-Paschal\/Passover Dinner Belatedly for the Blond Multi\u2019s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 3rd<\/sup> April 2010<\/p>\n

I\u2019m at the Gay Mother\u2019s for Easter. Tuesday last was one of my chaotic dinners, pre-paschal\/Passover, ten dining, crammed into my picturesque artisan\u2019s cott in London\u2019s North. Lord Arrowby couldn\u2019t come; Robert Nevil couldn\u2019t come. Anthony Mottram \u2013 we\u2019re on speakers, but the rift isn\u2019t healed. Will it be?<\/p>\n

Inside I am suffering. Marcus Cargill, England\u2019s leading clock mender, who dines, tells me that AM is borrowing his London flat over Easter and was in London last week.<\/p>\n

But the divine Multis come in glory, with three bottles of Chateau Rare and Tres Grand Cost, the Blond in a new, tailor-made suit of sumptuous blue velvet, the Photographer furious with the Government: more regs bossing landlords about, he says. Insufferable.\u00a0 This week they have probably bought six more flats to rent out. It\u2019s hard to keep up. They had that lunch at Coutts Bank, by the way. I forgot to tell you. Funny little bare room with what looked like flexi-walls from the graphs.<\/p>\n

Ralph Kitto, banker, owner of top-drawer contemporary art collection, mistakes Laura Malcolm for the widow of Joseph Ettedgui, of the Joseph shops, who dropped the other day. I just prevent him from hurling forward with emergency condolences. Laura has made a chocolate cake (total fat death in every delicious mouthful), wilfully not conceding to the nut allergy of Joshua Baring, the youngest guest, only 27, and new, very coming, has never dined before. Is Jewish, up to a point, hence the Passover aspect.\u00a0 With the grandeur of the young, arrives by taxi, bringing costly and previously unheard of gifts – exceptional fringed tulips, resembling old-fashioned coconut icing, and chocs from one-off shop in Bayswater called Cocomaya. Absolutely superb. You must have them.<\/p>\n

Joshua is highly wrought, very clever, very advanced in shopping, particular, rare, knows everything\u00a0 but not\u00a0 malicious, loves Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>. \u00a0He has been at the gruesome London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival with Robert Nevil. We shall be hearing more.<\/p>\n

But I am worried about his nut allergy, even though it\u2019s very modern . I would have liked a bulance on hand throughout, rather like that fire engine that is always stationed outside Bayreuth during performances because the theatre is all-wood.<\/p>\n

The dinner gets underway. The Multis are pleased by the roasted aubergine with oregano and coriander with tahini. In fact they say it is the best first course they\u2019ve ever had.<\/p>\n

Where would I be without them?<\/p>\n

The meat main is the Ashkenazi alternative \u2013 stuffed shoulder of lamb. See Nigella\u2019s Feast,<\/em> chapter on the Passover. Untidy on the plate, quite a lot of fat, a great slick of which somehow gets all over my frockage. So I am martyred in the kitchen, as saucepans, cutlery, dishes, debris proliferate. The dining table, too, begins to heap with wrappings, bits of string, corks, Lord knows what. How nice, I think, to be Third World and not have any possessions. On the other hand, I could have gloved staff, lifting, clearing, sweeping, washing up (with the gloves off, presume), putting away. But then the guests would be cowed and we\u2019d be eating catering food as if at Massivebury, the desolate get-a-hose-to-the-door-and-pump-in-a-million -pounds country seat of the Smallmeal\/Limpneys, my absolute fuck-off and slam-down non-friends.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s too expensive. Are guests either cowed or contemptuous?<\/p>\n

As I scurry, hostessing, with my fat stigmata (right, though, for Holy Week), I catch snippets, the guests, as with the rubbish piling up on the table, growing wilder and wilder.<\/p>\n

\u2018Massivebury!\u2019<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t believe it. Does Ralph Kitto know the Smallmeal\/Limpneys?\u00a0 \u2018We haven\u2019t been invited,\u2019 someone says. \u2018Deadly,\u2019 says someone else.<\/p>\n

I fly past with the tea and coffee service. Fragments. Still the Smallmeal\/Limpneys?<\/p>\n

\u2018…someone who goes to the gym that<\/em> much.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018…\u00a330,000 on business-class flights to Ventimiglia…\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018There are two things that make him totally demented…\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Someone had actually <\/em>died…\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s worth \u00a310 million.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018If he thinks people have got more money than him….\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018He was never management…\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018All that slapper said was, \u201cThe boyfriend will get all the money\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Or if he thinks they\u2019ve got better connections…\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Not even fit to push the toiletries trolley…\u2019<\/p>\n

Some time later. It doesn’t sound like the Smallmeal\/Limpneys. I shunt back and forth. The coffee’s run out. The cups are fiddly.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve been privileged to see Carlos\u2019s leather-gear.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is Laura Malcolm. I can tell, she being the only lady present. This is from the Ralph Kitto, Blond Multi end of the table. Carlos?\u00a0 Is this the considerably younger, gym-expanded Carlos who is partner of multi-millionaire, Sol Weideinwar, reported by me the other day as being unhappy in luxury\u2019s lap and wanting to go out to work? I cannot tell. But both Ralph\u00a0 and Laura know Sol, as they might have discovered. Laura and I rather like Carlos. I strain to hear more but nothing further wings its way.<\/p>\n

How do the young prosper when plucked from obscurity and pressed to the bosom of a doting, lavish multi? We must wait and see.<\/p>\n

\"Exceptional

Exceptional Coconut-Icing Tulips Brought by Joshua Baring<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Superb

Superb New Chocolate Source Revealed by Joshua Baring <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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