{"id":938,"date":"2010-02-17T18:52:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2010-02-17T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:52:24","slug":"my-mouse-%e2%80%93-a-turn-for-the-better-but-bruce-macbain-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"My Mouse \u2013 A Turn for the Better but Bruce MacBain Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 17th<\/sup> February 2010<\/p>\n

That mouse! You know, the one that nearly brought down my dinner on Saturday and threatened to chew up my entire home \u2013 well, there have been developments.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, at lunch, Val wasn\u2019t best pleased. \u2018I\u2019m<\/em> eating here!\u2019 he boomed when informed of the mouse. Val is very grand, and almost exactly forty-eight times more so when in heroic engagement with the bottle.<\/p>\n

There was nothing for it. I telephoned Bruce MacBain, my architect.\u00a0 What else could I do? What would you<\/em> have done? It turned out a wise move. Yes, indeed, there have been advances in trap design. \u2018A humane trap,\u2019 (imagine the wholesome Scottish accent), \u2018you must have a humane trap.\u2019<\/p>\n

I thought about a humane trap, I really did. It would mean more shopping and this week I\u2019ve already spent \u00a3215 on a new tax disc for my machina<\/em>, \u00a3100 for its new battery and \u00a395 on my Greenflag subscription.<\/p>\n

Hell, and so dreary. That\u2019s called going backwards financially. Next week I retrench totally to the Gay Mother’s. Except she wants a camera for her 86th birthday.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I manoeuvred my inhumane trap, with its enticing morsel of best Mesan, into a new position in the cupboard under the stairs. With little hope of results, I must say. It\u2019s been weeks of fruitless trapping, as I mentioned before. Yesterday I carried out a few half-hearted inspections. Nothing. But this morning, I regret to inform you, the trap was on its side and the small brown fur ball within, quite crushed.<\/p>\n

In fact, it is still there. I haven\u2019t had the nerve to untangle it and pitch it into the dustbin.<\/p>\n

To such tasks are even great gays called.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I am often asked: \u2018What do your world-famous friends talk about in private?\u2019 (There is a connection. Do be patient). They mean Reggie Cresswell, the Ghanaian ceramicist, Harry Rollo, the performance artist and impresario, Ariel, the water sculptor, the authors, Robert Nevil and Rufus Pitman, not to mention….<\/p>\n

At dinner the other day with Reggie Cresswell we picked over the immense difficulties of changing the bulbs in some of the more expensive light-fittings that Bruce MacBain (he is architect to us all) has made us have.<\/p>\n

Does that give you an idea?<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t got famous friends, do get some soon.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m just off to a reunion dinner with Ralph Kitto. I\u2019ve been rather bitter towards him for about 12 years. Then I decided not to be. He\u2019s invited me to the Cap for his birthday in June.<\/p>\n

Do you know it?\u00a0 Do you know the Cap?<\/p>\n

His Damien Hirst fell off the wall and nearly killed his mother. It\u2019s an extraordinary thing. Looks like one of those plain white cupboards in a pharmacist\u2019s back premises.<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s a Damien Hirst.<\/p>\n

\"My

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