{"id":1754,"date":"2010-11-25T17:48:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T17:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2010-11-25T17:48:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T17:48:32","slug":"the-blond-multi-in-bizarre-week-off-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"The Blond Multi in Bizarre Week-Off&nbsp;Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 25<sup>th<\/sup> November 2010<\/p>\n<p>The Blond Multi took a week off.<\/p>\n<p>You may be underwhelmed but, I tell you, it\u2019s a sensation.<\/p>\n<p>Our fabulous Brideshead-blond-yet-utterly-contemporary multi-millionaire <em>normally<\/em> out-Thatchers his idol Mrs Thatcher who didn\u2019t, as I always thought, announce in the doorway of the newly-bombed Brighton Grand, \u2018Yes, I was working\u2019 but might as well have done.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about driven. The Blond Multi even does piano exams at home in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Work, work, work. Awards, honours, recognition, expanding wealth base, a private economy the size of a small city\u2019s \u2013 Poor Little Rich Gays must have them.<\/p>\n<p>So what was the Blond Multi doing having a week off at home, throwing away all the paperbacks ? He\u2019s decided on hardback only. But Robert Nevil\u2019s <em>Parallel Life of Nurse Edith Cavell and Josephine Bake<\/em>r, an early work, was spared. \u00a0Otherwise, in the footsteps of the Queen, he toured the offices of the top accountancy firm where Prince Dmitri Hersov is doing hush-hush work for the Chinese and lunched at Roka, Canary Wharf. No chop-sticks, thank you, bring a knife and fork and why seven sushi pieces when there are four of us?<\/p>\n<p>The talking lift at Roka enchanted the Blond, who rode up and down several times just to hear the computer-generated voice of death fail to express any difference between \u2018First Floor Roka Restaurant\u2019 and \u2018Ground Floor Street Exit\u2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1755\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1755\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1755\" title=\"014\" src=\"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/014-562x750.jpg\" alt=\"Talking Lift at Roka Canary Wharf, Loved by the Blond Multi. Note the Glimpse of Adrian Edge Himself\" width=\"562\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/014-562x750.jpg 562w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/014-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/014.JPG 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talking Lift at Roka Canary Wharf, Loved by the Blond Multi. Note the Glimpse of Adrian Edge Himself<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1756\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1756\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1756\" title=\"011\" src=\"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/011-562x750.jpg\" alt=\"Raw Fish Ensemble at Roka. Attempts to Eat that Prawn Head were Unsuccessful\" width=\"562\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/011-562x750.jpg 562w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/011-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/011.JPG 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raw Fish Ensemble at Roka. Attempts to Eat that Prawn Head were Unsuccessful<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1757\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1757\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1757\" title=\"013\" src=\"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/013-562x750.jpg\" alt=\"Aspargus with Lifting Equipment\" width=\"562\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/013-562x750.jpg 562w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/013-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/013.JPG 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aspargus with Lifting Equipment<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 25th November 2010 The Blond Multi took a week off. You may be underwhelmed but, I tell you, it\u2019s a sensation. Our fabulous Brideshead-blond-yet-utterly-contemporary multi-millionaire normally out-Thatchers his idol Mrs Thatcher who didn\u2019t, as I always thought, announce in the doorway of the newly-bombed Brighton Grand, \u2018Yes, I was working\u2019 but might as well [&hellip;]<\/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-1754","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\/1754","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=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}