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My Christmas Nearly Cancelled:Presents: What Hope Now?
24th December 2009 My Christmas was nearly cancelled by Aunt Smidge and her daughter Smurry. Mother and daughter team. Live together. Mother 83, dau 60. They always do Christmas lunch. But now they’ve got a puppy. Can’t shut it up, can...
Lord Arrowby’s Party is the Climax of the Pre-Christmas Season
Monday 21st December 2009 8pm. Saturday. Lord Arrowby’s party. We end as we began in a gleaming London warehouse apartment that murmurs ‘finish, finish, finish.’ Or rather screams. Two weeks ago at Ned Czernowski and Peter Acharya’s the smoot...
The Joyous Agony of Christmas Cards
Saturday 19th December 2009 Lord Arrowby’s party in two hours! I hear he is to be very lithe and fitted. Anthony Mottram, the Multis, Rufus Pitman, Reginald Cresswell, the Ghanaian ceramicist, will be present. Come back tomorrow to hear all about i...
Sensational Stop-Press: Lord Arrowby and the BA Strike
Thursday 17th December 2009 I’ve just heard from Rufus Pitman. Just this afternoon the BA strike has been declared illegal. Is it a coincidence that Lord Arrowby is to fly (with bronzer) to Rufus’ Swiss home for Christmas – by Bri...
Edging Towards the Ideal Form of the Pre-Christmas Dinner – but I am Horrid to the Photographer Multi
Thursday 17th December 2009 Do you know, my Pre-Christmas Dinner on Tuesday was all right, say it myself as shouldn’t? Which is extraordinary because I mixed up the cake in the wrong order and had no table mats four hours before the opening shot wa...
The Multis’ Christmas Entertaining – But Even You Could Do It!
Tuesday 15th December 2009 The Multis’ Pub Lunch on Sunday for friends and family – you can’t wait to hear. They reveal a new vista in Christmas gatherings. We all must follow. But my own dinner is in two and a half hours. Ed Jasper, the be...

