{"id":10200,"date":"2021-02-14T23:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T23:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2021-02-14T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T23:21:27","slug":"various-phases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=10200","title":{"rendered":"Various&nbsp;Phases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 15th February 2021<\/p>\n<p>Borderline of existence. For a week I&#8217;ve done nothing. How is it possible? I&#8217;ve managed it. \u00a0A philosophical conundrum surely. People keep ringing up: &#8216;Why haven&#8217;t you returned my call?&#8217; What happens to the time? It roars by as always but really&#8230;. Somehow I&#8217;m not up before 11. Supermart and back. The day&#8217;s over. Time for drinks and <em>Call my Agent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking it&#8217;s only me. But it&#8217;s <em>everybody<\/em>. How could this be? I have all news feeds except the Stock prices switched off. I won&#8217;t listen. Aunt Lavinia says the News is everybody disagreeing. Which is good. The Gay Mother has heard that a black curate at All Hallows by the Tower, which was where Aunt Olive worshipped (so keep off there) has done a tweet and there&#8217;s been terrible outrage, even though he apologised. The Tweet said that Captain Tom in the aura around him was White Imperialism &#8211; something like that. Royston phoned and said, &#8216;He couldn&#8217;t help being White.&#8217; He should know, being black himself.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago or so I felt so desperate. I couldn&#8217;t see how I&#8217;d ever get through all the menus I&#8217;ve got planned. How to keep up with Laura Malcolm, who&#8217;s progressed to a self-fermented barley loaf requiring some grains to be pre-soaked for a week? The loaf, finally, resembled the late Lord Goodman whom I saw once in person at St John&#8217;s Smith Square at some kind of fund-raising concert in the late 70s we weren&#8217;t supposed to be at or not in those clothes at least. There were looks. Important ladies accompanying Lord G (where they Fag Hags?) cast looks. But Lord G covered up for Lord Boothby re: the Krays (such dears) and fixed it that <em>the Mirror<\/em> lost the Libel case. Wasn&#8217;t he just a weeny bit criminal? So why did we have to have those women looking at us like that all those years ago? \u00a0Anthony Mottram and I were taken by his brother. Something to do with the Royal College of Mu.<\/p>\n<p>I was breathless all the time. How was I ever going to get Marcus Wareing&#8217;s Brined Pork Fillet with braised cabbage and Quince Sauce on the table? And that white cabbage in the cold area &#8211; been there for weeks. I bought all those elements for Nigella&#8217;s New Orleans Coleslaw but had to throw them away. Have now re-bought. The white cabbage still looms in the cold area.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so depressing is the actual eating, after all that kitchen slavery, is over in ten minutes and even in that time I&#8217;m trying to make inroads into the clearing up. Getting ahead. Will I ever have a moment to myself?<\/p>\n<p>All this cabbage though, especially raw &#8211; I can&#8217;t digest it. But we didn&#8217;t live through two world wars to waste cabbage.<\/p>\n<p>So that phase of frenzy lead to another. I had a risotto three nights in a row. It got nastier and nastier &#8211; mealy and dry. Then the red cabbage in the Austrian style. Industrial scale of supply &#8211; but what do you do with a red cabbage? \u00a0Even the smallest one is huge.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at the end of that &#8211; and did I mention I&#8217;m trying to lose weight &#8211; my digestion was wrecked for good. I was picking at my food. The white pudding fried in slices to go with the red cabbage in the Austrian style tasted of utter drear. The Gay Mother said, &#8216;Haven&#8217;t you got any smoked salmon? How about a bit of plain boiled rice?&#8217; &#8216;Rice! I can&#8217;t touch it. Swollen and bloated for days.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only just beginning to recover now. It&#8217;s just not natural to be eating one&#8217;s own cooking all the time. The digestion wards will be crammed for generations for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Down with it all and I blame the Government.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10201\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10201\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10201\" src=\"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OVPC3935-563x750.jpeg\" alt=\"Laura Malcolm's Lord Goodman Loaf \" width=\"563\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OVPC3935-563x750.jpeg 563w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OVPC3935-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/OVPC3935.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Malcolm&#8217;s Lord Goodman Loaf<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 15th February 2021 Borderline of existence. For a week I&#8217;ve done nothing. How is it possible? I&#8217;ve managed it. \u00a0A philosophical conundrum surely. People keep ringing up: &#8216;Why haven&#8217;t you returned my call?&#8217; What happens to the time? It roars by as always but really&#8230;. Somehow I&#8217;m not up before 11. Supermart and back. 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