{"id":9055,"date":"2018-08-26T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2018-08-26T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T16:02:11","slug":"ive-been-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=9055","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Been on Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 25th August 2018<\/p>\n

I’d like it to be known I boarded Club Class for Prague and thence to repeat Bayreuth after only 3 years. Not many repeat Bayreuth ever in their lives. No yellow Heidis this time though.<\/p>\n

At the Museum Apartment in Prague aggrandisement has led to agony. \u00a0Paintings and furniture were stacked in the Private Parlour on the top floor. Almost a year ago Anthony and Vadim forged through the wall into the neighbouring flat. The babicka who had been eke-ing there was barely dead. This expansion follows from when, fifteen years ago, Anthony plunged through the floor, bringing the museum quarter into existence. The great lower museum room has its own entrance. American tourists \u00a0found in it, looking for the Titians, are always told they are away on loan.<\/p>\n

I so feel for Anthony Mottram re: the home. The builders almost burnt it down. That was after they’d over-run on the job by eight months. They damaged the parquet somehow, re-did the parquet, got it the wrong colour, re-re-did it… set fire to the apartment. Still it’s the wrong colour. All they had to do originally was knock through to the granny-flat, ensuring that the entire building didn’t fall down (steels etc), install massive moving bookcases in the opening on a unique hydraulic system known only to Gays, renovate the parquet throughout and match it with the existing, create a sleek hotel bathroom, install shelves, paint the rooms and go away. It was supposed to have been finished by November 3rd 2017. On July 29th 2018 – still in agony. Builders not appearing. Furniture stacked up. Anthony and Vadim’s lives in suspension – of disbelief as much as anything.<\/p>\n

Anthony showed me the tasks outstanding \u00a0– the missing cover for the toilet flush system, the poor silicone work, the crude edges, the bit of wall hacked at by the firemen when the apartment nearly burned down. He pushed the switch for the hydraulic bookcases to close. Nothing happened. Luckily a second time and it worked. How to get out if the system fails while closed, though? One could be trapped in the babicka quarter and but gathered as she was. No other exit, you see. Poor Little Rich Gays, you should know – there’s a hand-crank. But unlikely that you will find it before the oxygen runs out.<\/p>\n

The thing is, Anthony said, as one declines oneself with advancing years, one’s immediate environment must go the other way, towards utter perfection. My thoughts exactly. What I didn’t say was how likely is it that one hastens one’s end in the writhing quest?<\/p>\n

\"The

The Great Hydraulic Moving Bookshelves of Prague<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The Other Side: the Great Hydraulic Moving Bookcases of Prague: But How to Open Again should Mechanism Fail ?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Parquet

Parquet Agony in Prague: Not Matching<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Where

Where the Firemen Hacked<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The Former Babicka Flat in Which One Would Die were the Great Hydraulic Bookcases to fail to Open, in which it would Become a Tomb<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Toilet

Toilet Innovation: to Ensure Complete Anal Tidiness<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oh

Oh No! Silicone Work not Up to Scratch<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Missing

Missing Toilet Flush Panel: Builder has it but Won’t Return<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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