{"id":2508,"date":"2011-08-09T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T13:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2011-08-28T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T08:12:46","slug":"what-can-poor-little-rich-gays-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT CAN POOR LITTLE RICH GAYS DO?<\/p>\n

I can hardly breathe. Not the whole of Tuscany can soothe. Plunging markets and now the Visigoths have descended.<\/p>\n

Only last week, \u00a0double dining in London,\u00a0 seems another age.<\/p>\n

Two types of savagery at once have escaped their kennels (they were there all the time, waiting) and now pad through the land, jaws loose and swinging. The market brutes senselessly selling, their terror of no recovery now ensuring no recovery and the rioters and looters, wracked by poverty apparently, the same.<\/p>\n

Poor Little Rich Gays think only of themselves: or this one does at least. My home burnt to a crisp, my official Car a blackened hulk. But we\u2019ve played our part; we\u2019ve made the gated community: within was moisturiser at \u00a360 a pot minimum, Villa with swimming pool\u00a0 (I\u2019m in one now, typing on a floating piece), better swimming trunks, 4-star hotels (but Harry Rollo said: 4-stars hell, 5 heaven) driver at the door, the Prada bags, even if at 50% discount, the fayne waynes and speciality perfumes \u2013 even Hermes, as a fume, just a wheeny bit high street.<\/p>\n

What will we do now?<\/p>\n

There I feel better. I\u2019m in an apartemento in Tuscany with pool. There are insect screens. But I\u2019ve killed a hornet. Yesterday it was sinking, filthy hot with a feverish non-storm overhead. Today bliss: fresh and clear. You can see San Gimignano from here. I\u2019ve got Arjan Bose, the exquisite Indian doctor, with. He\u2019s really Robert Nevil\u2019s treasure but I\u2019m borrowing him for a week. It\u2019s separate bedrooms, you understand, also with RN, although I\u2019m not sure the owner of the apartemento, who is in her own apartemento downstairs, has grasped that. We\u2019ve tried hard to stamp in the different bedrooms at bedtime so she\u2019ll hear.<\/p>\n

Arjan is actually 35 and a doctor with his own patients but he\u2019s got perfect pseudo-infant ways. Poor Little Rich Gays like to have someone to look after, you see. Come back later for further explanation and developments. The Kitchen phenomenon (see glossary) comes into it, of course.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking, after all that\u2019s happened, of moving into the kitchen department myself, although, now, there\u2019s the question of how to afford… So a kitchen who earns is ideal.<\/p>\n

But back to Italy: by the way, the infinite superiority of Tuscany over Umbria, where we were last year. The Photo Multi made his views clear after a week at that Umbrian villa provided by Prince Dmitri and myself. He\u2019s absolutely right of course. Umbria won\u2019t do at all, although we did go there, market selling brutes and rioters and looters please believe it, to save money, we did really.<\/p>\n

Umbria\u2019s very lovely but Tuscany\u2019s lovelier. Umbria\u2019s just a bit too natural and there are more factories on which we depend for investment income and prosperity generally so we can afford not to be near factories. Tuscany\u2019s probably the greatest man-and-woman-made landscape in the world, with just the right balance of vast panoramas provided, as you might say, by basic nature. But even these man and woman have dressed.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Arjan and I took a Chiantishire drive which acquired, for me, as aspect of a trip down memory lane to 1976 when I first took Tuscany with Anthony Mottram, now estranged, but for 40 years the main home for me on this earth.<\/p>\n

Now I recall, in a dream last night, that on Facebook was a message: \u2018Anthony Mottram has chosen you as a Loved One\u2019.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve discovered Certaldo Alta: completely new 15th<\/sup> century hill-top town, new to me at least, astonishingly austere, all done in tones of terracotta. I saw a bride there \u2013 beyond belief.<\/p>\n

Just one thing though: on the way over here on Saturday from Florence airport I got lost and the Fiat 500 hire-car had a life of its own, switched off its air-con, sometimes wouldn\u2019t start or move for no reason. I thought I might hurtle into a ditch and tumble down and down through the olive groves: not exactly a craving for the grave but that it didn\u2019t really matter. <\/em>Somehow it was just a little bit more effort to stay on the road but there wasn\u2019t much in it, consequences of veering off just a vague turmoil.<\/p>\n

Just a wheeny bit odd but I\u2019m all right now.<\/p>\n

\"The

The Greatest Landscape in the World Known and Re-Made Through Art<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pool

Pool and View at my Apartemento<\/p><\/div>\n

\"View

View of San Giminiwhinny from my Apartemento<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Certaldo

Certaldo Alta: Superbly Austere and Tourist-Free<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The Groom was Stained by The Wall: They were Being Styled by Photographer Just Visible <\/p><\/div>\n

\"La

La Braciana: the Multis' Tuscan Villa of Two Years Ago Seen Yesterday: We are Now Barred<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Plastic

Plastic Duck in Apartemento Pool Matching Outsize One Given to Arjan Bose by Prince Dmitri Hersov: But Arjan Does Not Take a Pool So Cannot Play with Duck <\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pop-Up

Pop-Up Restaurant in Certaldo Alta, Funded by Democratic Party, Where We Dined Excellently Last Night: 54 euros for four Including Wayne<\/p><\/div>\n

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