{"id":1310,"date":"2010-07-17T21:11:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2010-07-17T21:14:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T20:14:53","slug":"lord-arrowby%e2%80%99s-heightened-summer-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Lord Arrowby\u2019s Heightened Summer Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 17th<\/sup> July 2010<\/p>\n

Cascades of champagne, staff, canap\u00e9s surging every 30 seconds. Good Lord, readers, I expect you’re thinking: ‘Not again.’<\/p>\n

There is a sameness to Poor Little Rich Gay life, it is true. But we have struggled so hard to lash our bark in the howling storm to those bollard things on the quay.<\/p>\n

Lord Arrowby\u2019s parties are certainly well out of recession, the student-style brie-and-baguette table now a tiny speck on the horizon.<\/p>\n

But His Lordship, as we know, Mr Darcy-ish, some kind of power-behind-the-throne in power\u2019s highest corridors (although these could be, now I think of it, the bedroom corridors), but nevertheless highly bizarre and supremely Poor Little Rich Gay, as well as my part-time love interest, when I remember, is not given to extravagance. Although we must remember that unextravagance is costly. You have to be at a certain level before you can afford to avoid it. But he has, like Ralph Kitto, put a great deal into his art collection.<\/p>\n

He was a sublime honey-gold hue for his party which he insisted was natural, his blue eyes never bluer or more bewitching.<\/p>\n

I think I won\u2019t carry on like this. It\u2019ll go to his head<\/p>\n

So: <\/strong><\/p>\n

The guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

World-famous Poor Little Rich Gays, but Reggie Cresswell, the Ghanaian ceramicist, unable to attend owing to the latest monumental ceramic still being in and out the kiln<\/p>\n

Boxers, kick and normal<\/p>\n

DJs<\/p>\n

Dancers who used to run frock shops<\/p>\n

Frock shoppists who used to be dancers<\/p>\n

Daphne Flowerbender, who has a butler and smokes through the courses<\/p>\n

Bond Street Gallerists<\/p>\n

Building Society Managers<\/p>\n

Mobile Phone Shop workers<\/p>\n

Male models<\/p>\n

Literary agents<\/p>\n

Members of the cycling club<\/p>\n

People with children<\/p>\n

Afghan community workers<\/p>\n

Vicars<\/p>\n

The Conversation: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Harry Rollo, the impresario and performance artist: \u2018I do resent sleeping. It means I\u2019m not getting on with anything.\u2019<\/p>\n

Rufus Pitman, novelist and critic: \u2018New direction in perfume: \u201cSycamore\u201d by Chanel, only available from Selfridges, \u00a3190 a bottle.\u2019<\/p>\n

Lollo Ges\u00f9 to his friend, Ces\u00e1r Salas: \u2018What\u2019s all this?\u2019 \u2013 pulling on loose fabric around crotch of C\u00e8sar\u2019s trousers \u2013 \u2018There\u2019s nothing there.\u2019 \u2018What do you suggest?\u2019 says C\u00e8sar. \u2018A sock!\u2019 says Lollo. Ces\u00e1r much charming. In fact we\u2019re already friends on Facebook where you can see him in underwear and silver straps.<\/p>\n

Relationships a big theme: \u00a0Gay divorce \u2013 expense of. Relationships, long term but seasonal, problems of.\u00a0 Then, Guy Bostock, who had his ex-boyfriend moved back in, owing to homelessness it turns out, and living at the other end of his flat. That was last year. Now Guy has got even bigger pecs, borne with \u00a0irony, and has met a big muscular go-cart racer who is being impossible. It really is too much. We were all furious on his behalf but he was superbly prancing and glancing in the Poor Little Rich Gay manner about it all.<\/p>\n

The Frockage: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Arrowby was in a white-and-blue flowered lawn shirt and the new mid-calf length summer slacks – this was weeks of planning, as we know.<\/p>\n

Two people were showing the new oatmeal canvas lace-ups with sateen toe-caps, Lord Arrowby one of them.<\/p>\n

The ivory and white summer look, classic, was excellently displayed, especially by Ces\u00e0r Salas whose silhouette was fantastic \u2013 coat-hanger shoulders, tiny waist.<\/p>\n

By the way, someone apparently connected with fashion was asked what trousers are doing: \u2018Don\u2019t worry. Wear what you like,\u2019 this person said.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s wrong. We want to wear what\u2019s new, however unsuitable. Frockage is the fight against death.<\/p>\n

So wear all of the above, dear readers, even if it kills you.<\/p>\n

Finally:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I said to Lord Arrowby: \u2018Let\u2019s marry soon.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Oh, that again.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Well, how about a mini-break?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018All right. But I insist on separate bathrooms.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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