Tuesday 15th September 2009<\/p>\n
Do you know Separate Tables<\/em> by Terry Ratty (that’s Terence Rattigan, to be boring)? The great climax is when the down-trodden daughter finally stands up to her\u00a0awful tyrant mother, played by Dame Sybil Thorndike in the film version. She says: ‘No, Mummy, no!\u00a0 I’m going to stay here and talk to the Major.’ It is Anthony Mottram’s favourite moment in\u00a0all of\u00a0drama apart from most\u00a0of Brief Encounter<\/em>. It is strange that one who has enjoyed numerous sizzling romances with very young men as well as a 40-year\u00a0equal partnership of some kind or other with me should be obsessed by these tales of stiffled, desperate women: ‘I told myself I wouldn’t go.\u00a0How could I? But then Thursday came and, of course, like a fool, I went.’<\/p>\n But that’s another story.<\/p>\n Last night I had a dream. I was saying, ‘No, Mottram, no!\u00a0 I’m staying here with the kitchen (see glossary).\u00a0I’m going to\u00a0help him get a really good arms’ deal.’<\/p>\n What could it mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday 15th September 2009 Do you know Separate Tables by Terry Ratty (that’s Terence Rattigan, to be boring)? The great climax is when the down-trodden daughter finally stands up to her\u00a0awful tyrant mother, played by Dame Sybil Thorndike in the film version. She says: ‘No, Mummy, no!\u00a0 I’m going to stay here and talk to […]<\/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-365","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\/365","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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}