{"id":2521,"date":"2011-08-10T19:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2011-08-10T19:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:03:38","slug":"social-set-backs-and-pseudo-kitchen-life-in-tuscany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"Social Set-Backs and Pseudo-Kitchen Life in&nbsp;Tuscany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 10th August 2011<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Tuscany. Just not looking the stock prices. Bruce MacBain, my private architect, texted this morning about 3 feet away from supposed London riots, entirely preoccupied with etiquette of visit to a Tuscan Multi villa.<\/p>\n<p>Which he undertakes next week, as do I.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at my more humble apartemento, Arjan Bose and I have\u00a0 been informed by Bruno-France Bruno that the Contessa who deals in black diamonds is at Capri therefore unable to receive in San Gimignano. We&#8217;ve also had pointed out the villa of an English Lord (name forgotten), where Prince Charles has stayed.<\/p>\n<p>But how to get in?<\/p>\n<p>We met Luca at an olive oil farm nearby which has huge curly hair and v. keen to speak English. But he didn&#8217;t know the English lord. He lives solo in a casa rustica. We&#8217;re interested. His pants, almost entirely visible in the modern manner, had many messages scrawled.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m practising kitchen life with Arjan Bose who is a pseudo-kitchen (see glossary) &#8211; huge advantage that he pays for everything. In fact once he&#8217;s secured his vast doctor&#8217;s salary, Robert Nevil and I could find ourselves in a reverse-kitchen situation.<\/p>\n<p>The whole kitchen issue needs clarifying: <em>please note Poor Little Rich Gays are not kiddy-fiddlers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we took a evening drive to San Gimignano. Arjun said: &#8216;How old are these towers?&#8217;\u00a0 Of course, I had no idea.<\/p>\n<p>Failed at first hurdle of kitchen lover: you&#8217;ve got to be able <em>to instruct<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More later: in a mad dash to get a sausage risotto on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2518\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2518\" title=\"009\" src=\"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/009-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"Controversial Luncheon Choice at Barberino Val D'Elsa\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/009-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/009-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Controversial Luncheon Choice at Barberino Val D&#39;Elsa: the Chocolate Decoration was Balsamic: The Mound in the Middle is Tuna Based: The Flaps are Turkey<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2519\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2519\" title=\"001\" src=\"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/001-650x487.jpg\" alt=\"San Giminango: Surely Poor Little Rich Gays Would Have Dolled Up These Towers Just a Little More \" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/001-650x487.jpg 650w, https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Giminango: Surely Poor Little Rich Gays Would Have Dolled Up These Towers Just a Little More But They Were Built, in a Poor Little Rich Gay Spirit, to Facilitate Throwing of Missiles at Neighbours House of English Lord: Prince of W Said to Have Stayed: But How Do We Get In?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 10th August 2011 I&#8217;m in Tuscany. Just not looking the stock prices. Bruce MacBain, my private architect, texted this morning about 3 feet away from supposed London riots, entirely preoccupied with etiquette of visit to a Tuscan Multi villa. Which he undertakes next week, as do I. Meanwhile, at my more humble apartemento, Arjan [&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-2521","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\/2521","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=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}