{"id":941,"date":"2010-02-21T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2010-02-21T18:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T18:24:26","slug":"on-the-edge-at-ralph-kitto%e2%80%99s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge at Ralph Kitto\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday 21st<\/sup> February 2010<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been keeping up. Dramas and misfortunes abound, more than statistics suggest is usual for the third week of February. In fact something has happened which tells me that a particular estrangement should be brought to a prompt end.<\/p>\n

You may have noticed that a certain person has been absent from these pages for some months \u00a0now.<\/p>\n

But, to reverse in time, on Wednesday, as I fore-warned, I went to Ralph Kitto\u2019s, where, owing to a certain bitterness on my part, I have not been known for many years. Now Ralph lives in South Kensington but in the lower stub of his street the fearful red-brick mansion blocks of Earls\u2019 Court begin.<\/p>\n

You know what that means, don\u2019t you? Earls\u2019 Court gays might be mistaken for Poor Little Rich Gays, but are actually an entirely different species.<\/p>\n

Ralph is a banker. As far as I know he shouts and stamps on the trading floor, but grand lunches with clients in restaurants are spoken of, where presumably he does not shout and stamp. He lives in a one-bedroom ground floor flat \u2013 \u00a0but the double reception is about sixty feet from back to front and easily twenty across; on the walls, Gilbert and George and Damien Hirst.<\/p>\n

Well, what a scene! \u2018Help yourself,\u2019 said Ralph, gesturing to a side-board. \u2018It\u2019s coq au vin, I believe.\u2019 The food is always BI (that\u2019s bought in or even biked in) from Marks and Spencer. Once he entertained The Friends of the Tate with biked in pizza from the night before.<\/p>\n

Rather glorious and bold, don\u2019t you think? \u00a0We must all try it.<\/p>\n

And the other guests \u2013 we were eight \u2013 were like a pack of wild horses Ralph was trying to tame for social life. Every ten minutes he would bellow: \u2018I will<\/em> finish this story.\u2019 Then wait for quiet. \u2018Now, I haven\u2019t forgotten. You thought my new Damien Hirst was a plasma screen TV. You did, you know.\u2019 I sit next to two young Latin gentlemen who lob what appear to be insults at each other throughout. \u2018You\u2019ve called me Alessandro twice!\u2019 \u2018I don\u2019t want to go anywhere with you! It\u2019s always Scott\u2019s. And if it\u2019s tea, it\u2019s got to be Harrods. But I can\u2019t be bothered to go to Scott\u2019s.\u2019 At the other end of the table – Sol Weideinwar, multi-millionaire and, as it happens, an old friend of Matt Driver and Laura Malcolm: \u2018I\u2019ve lost my voice. I haven\u2019t had sex for eight days.\u2019 \u2018That\u2019s strange,\u2019 someone murmurs. \u2018Carlos has been in Brazil for two weeks.\u2019 Carlos is the younger partner, swelling magnificently in the gym apparently. He doesn\u2019t work. Later, after a careering detour through the sex lives of various people not present, some old and fat, others young and whippy, it emerges that Sol and Carlos had somehow coincided in New York\u00a0 – eight days ago, where intimacy took place.<\/p>\n

Carlos is very unhappy not working. But what is the point if your partner\u2019s a multi? And will he ever be able to catch up and iron out the unhappiness if that is its source?<\/p>\n

We shall see. We will follow this relationship with interest. As you know, where the gays are rich, and some Poor Little Rich Gays are rich, alliances of this nature often feature.<\/p>\n

The extraordinary thing was at 10.30, as if a bell had rung, they all got up from the table and bolted out the door. I suppose they have to be fresh for their banks and self-owned businesses the next day.<\/p>\n

There is much we can learn from this excellent style of entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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