{"id":209,"date":"2009-08-11T16:50:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T15:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-08-11T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T15:56:30","slug":"poor-little-rich-gays-on-holiday-%e2%80%93-can-we-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Poor Little Rich Gays on Holiday \u2013 can we keep up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Malaysian railway crockery - as seen in Mottram boutique hotel <\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0Monday 11th<\/sup> August 2009<\/p>\n

\u00a0Can you digress before you\u2019ve even begun?\u00a0 I must just tell you, before I launch my main topic, that my spirits suddenly are restored. \u00a0I wonder why?\u00a0 On the whole, as I get older, I grow more emotionally unbalanced. On Saturday I bought a boxed set of 4 Mozart operas for \u00a38.99 and played the Queen of the Night\u2019s aria about seventeen times. Sometimes simple things can give pleasure. On Sunday, lunch at the Multis; en plein air<\/em>, roof terrace, glorious day (even for August with its white light), views such as enjoyed only by the very rich or very poor living in tower blocks. Of course on Saturday next we foregather at their Tuscan villa and get dug in versus the Smallmeal\/Limpney holiday home at Rimini. I must remind the Multis to ask the Villa company to supply, as well as Wi-fi, a good stock of long range missiles. What are they called these days? Is it Mik-32s or was that years\u2019 ago? One really ought to know. \u00a0I wonder if you can get them last minute.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Val attended the Multis, just a little drunk on arrival, brilliant, hard, crystalline and full of the glories of Nicky Haslam\u2019s Desert Island Discs, which I missed. But he is dreadfully thin and hardly ate a thing. This is a new development \u2013 worrying. It is sad. In the past we often holidayed together, Mottram, him and me. Now it would be impossible.<\/p>\n

\u00a0But, thrilling news, I\u2019ve actually had an e-mail from Lord Arrowby and a text message<\/em>. I\u2019ve also heard from Anthony Mottram in Malaysia. So bursting to tell you.\u00a0 Lord A is not in Corfu with Lord Mandelbaum but on L\u2019Ile de Re (it\u2019s got an accent on the last \u2018e\u2019 but no idea how to put it). What on earth is it? I think it\u2019s off the French coast, in the Atlantic. I have an idea my friend, Edward Jasper, the bed linen expert and multi-millionaire, goes there. He, unusually for a top gay, doesn\u2019t like travelling and will only go to St Bart\u2019s and, I think, this Il de Re place. So if it\u2019s good enough for him…. Perhaps we should look into it. Lord Arrowby, of course, completely unforthcoming as to who with or how long staying or price of the hotel etc.<\/p>\n

\u00a0But I shall find out.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It is a shame Lord A is not better known to the public but his work is all behind the scenes, you see. He would be much more of a hit than Lord Mandelbaum. Did you see his (Lord M\u2019s) boarding outfit today for his return from Corfu?\u00a0 Less said the better. Now if that had been Lord A it would have been some kind of shimmering, sparkling athletic wear that would have caused a sensation and surely revived interest in the workings of government. It would have been that safety-pin dress all over again. What was she called, that girlfriend of Hugh Grant? Heather Mills? No… LIZ HURLEY… that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As for Anthony Mottram in Malaysia, I rather wonder. It is the monsoon season and they do say the White Man can go mad in the rain. On arrival he claimed not to find Asia. He said it had been Bobsified. He referred to his father who concreted over any garden. Now he has removed to a lux resort beach complex. It looks perfectly normal, in the rich gay way of looking \u2013 seething with staff, railway-style crockery for sale from glass cabinets in the lobby, trails of white muslin everywhere for that tropical look \u2013 but he keeps insisting that a certain tent on the beach is named \u2018The Limpney\/Smallmeal Honeymoon Lunch Tent\u2019. He says there is a plaque and that staff have fond memories etc…. but this can\u2019t be true. Simon Limpney and Robin Smallmeal had their honeymoon on a canal boat in Wales. It was Simon\u2019s idea. Often those of high birth think they might fancy such a thing. But the Elsan (that\u2019s a chemical toilet) finished them off and they had to be helicoptered back from Llangollen (I\u2019ve actually checked that spelling and I got it right) to Massivebury after 48 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here are some of Anthony Mottram\u2019s holiday snaps:<\/p>\n

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The so-called Smallmeal\/Limpney honeymoon lunch tent - Malaysia<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Beach

Beach Freshening in Malaysia<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Vladimir

Vladimir from the Ukraine - about to assume voluntary burka<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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