Monday 5th July 2010<\/p>\n
Today I telephoned Anthony Mottram.<\/p>\n
So what! you’re thinking.<\/p>\n
Well, I had to screw and screw to dial. Courage up, I mean. Terrible ordeal.<\/p>\n
And he is my oldest and closest friend, first met by me\u00a0 in September 1970 at a tea for new boys,\u00a0 now an entrepreneur, ‘consultant’, Poor Little Rich Gay, occupier of a museum-sized apartment in Prague, where his boyfriend, Vladmir Alexov of the Ukraine, newly graduated in Business Studies and about to move to London to start his first job, also resides.<\/p>\n
Who would have thought? It is exactly a year since Anthony fell ill at The Vases, where he was staying with Leon de Veer and Miles Kent. It was Swine. I thought to be forlorn at the graveside. My very first post, when the Poor Little Rich Gays began, was all about it. So who would have thought that from January we would not be on speakers?<\/p>\n
To tell you the truth, I’ve not been sleeping well. The less said about the row the better. As you know, with Poor Little Rich Gays, relationships are unusually configured. The younger lover is a feature, often. I met Mottram in April where he announced sensational developments. I’ll tell you all about them soon.\u00a0 After that encounter it was back into Abu Graiub for both of us.<\/p>\n
Then today I telephoned.<\/p>\n
We are both impossible people but tinged with greatness. We veered from the true path, we forgot to emblazon our damage and carry it before us, we forgot to be silly and tragic,we became huffy and puffy, whirling the rule-book, slamming and screaming.<\/p>\n
He is touring the Ukraine with Vladimir Alexov. Their car is a Mega Maisie Divine. Vladimir’s uncle is in charge of car names in the Ukraine. I think he must be homosexual. Apparently the road is barely made, you have to make it up as you go along.<\/p>\n
Well, we’re used to that.<\/p>\n
Mottram could hardly speak. The expense, you see, of mobile calls in those parts. But I think a long torment will be soon at an end.<\/p>\n
Within I felt like Spring, come back to life. I know, without, it is the middle of summer. To celebrate , I had broad bean risotto made with guinea fowl stock and Parmesan<\/em> – normally I cut it out for economy and slimming.<\/p>\n And I’ve so much to tell you!\u00a0 I haven’t finished the Cap Ferrat Ralph Kitto birthday celebrations. I’ve been shopping. I’ve bought a car. I’ve been involved with the garage world. Lord Arrowby, my part-time love object, has been frightfully lordly and paradoxical and marvellous and exciting and impossible. The Blond Multi is still unexplicably in Australia.\u00a0 Then, would you believe it, on Thursday I board for Virgil Grayson’s house at Le Lavandou – yes!\u00a0 The French Riviera again. Pres de St Tropez.<\/p>\n What it is to be a Poor Little Rich Gay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday 5th July 2010 Today I telephoned Anthony Mottram. So what! you’re thinking. Well, I had to screw and screw to dial. Courage up, I mean. Terrible ordeal. And he is my oldest and closest friend, first met by me\u00a0 in September 1970 at a tea for new boys,\u00a0 now an entrepreneur, ‘consultant’, Poor Little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}