{"id":7936,"date":"2016-10-22T19:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:47:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:47:21","slug":"october-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=7936","title":{"rendered":"October Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 22nd October 2016<\/p>\n

October is flying away: I can’t keep up with it. Merle Barr, formerly Head of Children, gave a simple supper in the first week of the month. She was crippled from her newly acquired allotment in the Highgate area: chard and kale were on the menu from it. Her tenacity and powers of seizure are such that she suddenly gained an allotment at the millionaire level, with George Michael over-looking. Angus Willis dined with Fergus Strachan. It emerged that if Hastings Council fail to remove his rubbish from outside the Angus Willis Home Store he goes straight through to the Home Secretary. After dining with Amber Rudd in Hastings, he’s on texting terms with her.<\/p>\n

On the Sunday was Lord Arrowby’s birthday outing. He hired a speedboat for 12 Poor Little Rich Gays and Lesbians which bashed down the Thames and performed somersaults right in front of the Multis’ penthouse. I suppose it was legal. We weren’t even strapped in – possibly, free, there would be a higher chance of survival if there was somebody with an upright knife lurking in the water to burst the speedboat. Even so, the impact at that speed would surely be lethal. Those Poor Little Rich Gay and Lesbian bodies, so expensively tended, would have been smashed to pieces. Lord Arrowby lives a life of Government committees and shimmering in the background at the highest possible level, so I imagine recklessness of this type is an outlet. It’s rather like the Royal Family who love artificially-induced danger such as flying planes themselves.<\/p>\n

At least my new Zara ‘Cossack’ jacket with frogging was suitable for a nautical setting. I teamed with my new Topman white skinny slacks. Lord Arrowby was wearing an ‘art’ mac by Dries, a Mondrian scarf, natural hair and no make-up. He looked magnificent.<\/p>\n

Mercifully we survived for Browns in St Martin’s Lane where I sat with the Hot Boy Doc, who briefed me on the NHS: it’s all too awful. I don’t know how anyone works at anything full time with no choice not to. It must be ghastly. But just unimaginable if you’re being ‘inspected’ by rat-like individuals with no social connections. And not getting any money. At least the Hot Boy Doc can say, ‘If you don’t dry up, I’m phoning Lord Arrowy, and he’ll go straight through to the PM.’<\/p>\n

What if the Autumn Tweed suddenly comes in at Topman and you miss it because you’re imprisoned in a ‘job’? \u00a0Mind you, don’t misunderstand me: all too often I’m trapped behind the camera, doing pieces for Dainty Lady TV<\/em>, when I should shopping for antiques or clothes – but that’s something else.<\/p>\n

The Hot Boy Doc has joined the National Trust and is working his way through the properties. Suddenly he said he’d missed me! What a rare outburst! I was touched and failed to rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n

Robert Nevil, on the other hand, dined with Anthony Mottram, ‘consultant’ of Prague at Talli Joe’s, the new Indian small plate dining opportunity in Shaftesbury Avenue. Anthony Mottram didn’t make a scene about the small plates which generally he is against. ‘I’m amazed you didn’t barge your way into the Howard Hodgkin Opening,’ Robert Nevil said. Oh HH. He’s awfully revered, you know. All the same – an opening and me not there!<\/p>\n

The next thing that happened was later that week Genevieve Suzy said how about going to the Ritz for a function? \u00a0I went down to the Dainty Lady TV<\/em> offices where the Anna Wintour de nos jours<\/em>\u00a0was an icon-shield of unassailable, un-contradictable coiffure and metallic top. ‘The Howard Hodgkin,’ Genevieve drawled. ‘Of course we had a card. But it was on a Friday. Impossible.’<\/p>\n

I forgot to say that while in Hastings for my birthday, on the Sunday following it, we visited the newly opened Pier which is incredibly wooden and bare in an important way.<\/p>\n

Now we looked at the Ritz invitation a little more closely. Mohammed al-Fayed’s daughter’s launch was in Westbourne Grove<\/em>. At a restaurant of her own making, it seemed. A vegetarian restaurant. Westbourne Grove<\/em>. We had no idea how to get there. The Ritz had been mentioned misleadingly on the invitation because of the al-Fayed connection. We couldn’t possibly go.<\/p>\n

All the same, Robert Nevil, Mohammed al-Fayed, thank you very much!<\/p>\n

Instead we went into Rules upstairs bar for little rabbit, hare and eel bites from the Rules estate in the country. On regaining the Suzy residence we found the Dancing Master in her drawing room with a big-built young man still in his puffa-jacket. As far as we could tell, for he was quite gutteral, English not his first, and possibly not given to speaking very much in any case, he’d been done over by a gang-master in Walthamstow who refused to pay commission for the sales he was making at home on his computer. He’d given the gang-master what-for and now had no money for rent. This was where the Dancing Master came in. Anyway they skipped away together to settle this rent question, or rather the young man had that street way of walking all powered from the thighs. Genevieve gave a certain look after they’d gone and then we tended the dogs.<\/p>\n

\"Lord

Lord Arrowby Speed-Boat Experience: Hold On Tight: You Bet<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lord

Lord Arrowby Speed-Boat Experience: in the Bowels of Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lord

Lord Arrowby Speed-Boat Experience: Privileged View of a Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lord

Lord Arrowby: Speed Boat Experience: Rare View of the Millenium Bridge: An Air-Sharpened Blade: Only From the River can its Thinness be Seen<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rules:

Rules: Special Entrance<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rules:

Rules: Bar Bites:Eel<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hastings

Hastings Pier, Newly Built after Fire: Important Wooden Statement<\/p><\/div>\n

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