Aunt Zug’s outing might appear the least Poor Little Rich Gay. All women without men. Aunt Zug’s daughter, Cousin Caroline, explains the plots of many operas. But, scratch beneath the surface, in the party were the former Ambassador to the Honduras (Alan Rusbridger of the Guardian<\/em> in her village, radiant gossip re: the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne) and a big-time City committee lady who’d been at Mansion House and met the Queen after the St Paul’s Jubilee service. Said that even private guests at that level were taking pictures with their mobile phones. This lady also knows Royston King, my friend who is somehow in charge of millions of lottery money to be given to heritage projects.<\/p>\n At home the stains have been awful. Just everywhere. Two white items, taken out of their packets from the cleaners, were found by cleaning to have been newly stained. I applied bleach to one with a Q-tip and got the blot out but created a tide-mark. Then there’s been the tragedy of my new white jacket with satin cowl collar (very crooner) that got wet and marked. It came back from Jeeves of Belgravia (the only hope in extremis: the highest cleaner in the land) more or less restored. I was comforted by the nice Greek-Cypriot lady in the shop whose new dog has died after only two weeks’ of possession, from a chicken bone. She said the remaining marks were negligible and would come out at the next cleaning.<\/p>\n With Cyprus and her dog passed, she could offer some perspective to a wracked Poor Little Rich Gay.<\/p>\n At the least the blue mark on the dodgy satin collar, which was there from the shop, came out.<\/p>\n So I’ll wear that jacket for Glyndebourne with the Gay Mother on Saturday.<\/p>\n At the Photo Multi’s hairdresser’s 25th anniversary party (25 years of Multi hair) we surely spotted Freddie Mercury among the Kodak parade of clients on the wall.<\/p>\n Rufus Pitman, our novelist and critic and columnist,\u00a0 kindly took me to the Barenboim prom. As a boy, he said, he would have crossed the country to hear the Boulez (I think\u00a0 called ‘Drift’ but in French). It was trills in different combinations. The whole idea was to evade definition as to mood, emotion expressed, category of piece, whether beginning, ending or in the middle, for 45 minutes. It was a piece of music. That was all that could be said. ‘Awfully well played,’ I said, recalling the Gay Grandmother, who always said, ‘Awfully clever,’ of anything modern. ‘Yes, but what an abominable waste of everyone’s time,’ said Rufus. We agreed that we’ve not a ounce of patience anymore. It turns out that Rufus is involved with vetting for M15, is asked regularly to assess a person’s loyalty to their country. This is in addition to his intense interest in niche perfumes. Outside the Albert Hall, he did a piece to camera, as did I, with Frankie-Doreen May, also present for Les Troyens<\/em>, yesterday. Amateur web-site-ists lurk outside the Hall and pounce. Such a good idea to give a feeling of importance to ordinary members of the public.<\/p>\n But did they realise, with Rufus, who they’d got?<\/p>\n The Multis’ home-concert was enchanting. They have a grand in their lounge area anyway. The Blond Multi once had ideas of doing Grade 1. Their pianist was a fiery Argentinian, really very good, no mistakes and very distinctive style of Chopin. It was she whom Bruce MacBain flirted with at the Blond Multi’s 50th Birthday at La Pont, while, entirely coincidentally, her husband (baby-faced but huge banker, so ideal) was being groomed for a threesome by Marcus Cargill and Hamish McCory at another table.<\/p>\n At the Urban\u00a0 Farm dinner afterwards, I sat next to Purbeck Crowhurst, the artist of owls, foxes and strange nocturnal events. Unfortunately, owing to my own debility, I could not understand a word he said. Laura Malcolm, whose husband, Matt Driver, was away spending his massive redundancy money, had a tricky neighbour with a certain cruel flash who regaled with tales of his early European adventures, getting absolutely rat-arsed, paralytic, smashed, plastered and blasted by lakes with birds. But Laura had him harnessed and tightly reined in\u00a0 and trotting along nicely. ‘I liked him, ‘ she said.<\/p>\n Freddie Mercury, Possibly: Photo Display at the Photo Multi's Hairdresser's 25th Anniversary Party <\/p><\/div>\n Monday 23rd July 2012 Thrilled, but like the Queen gasping for Balmoral – or the Poor Little Rich Gay equivalent, Tuscany. The Multis board on Saturday for six weeks. I follow the next Saturday. The Blond Multi, did I mention, in retirement has been having intensive lessons in Italian but won’t speak it. 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