MR PUTIN, DON'T PLAY CAT AND MOUSE WITH US, AND DON'T PUT YOUR FEET INTO OUR SOUP

Mr Putin should not underestimate Great Britain or the British

IN THE SNOW WE CAN STILL BEAT MOSCOW

I started writing this one week ago.  So it a little bit out of fashion.

However Mr Putin,  should wonder why people from his country want to live in Chelsea. As I look outside my house tonight in the best street in London overlooking Albert Bridge, there are few cities as beautiful as this one on a good day.
He should notice that they are leaving him, not us. I can't hear people saying "We must go to live  in Moscow", the most you hear is "Let's go for a quick week end to St Petersburg, to see their Northern Lights".
Despite his recent accolades with Syria he should never knock our  British feisty character. our beautiful singing, our contemporary artwork; our history; our inventions; which equals his, and our civil rights, which are much more correct than his, within our country, and understand why there are people wanting visas to our green and pleasant land, even on a rainy day. Let's be honest now, Syria needs a "Pipe line" and army tanks, come on it is a war about  OIL. So don't think the rest of the world are fools. Also how does anyone think, we feed the 6 billion people on our planet, if it is not making money out of war?.  Food for thought. I have just been told not to write this by the lovely Natalia who is doing my hair, but my father who wrote very cleverly about wars, Anthony Cave Brown, said to me this very sentence long ago. He also said you notice the wars do not happen in London, Paris, New York, which was before 9/11, however, there is not a running battle there?. So perhaps we should all think.
Putin's recent tirade  over gays was not particularly clever given that there are so many people who need his help and understanding in this area.
So Mr Putin, you should be careful to put your feet into our soup, you may slip.

MY HOUSES TO RENT IN CHELSEA, LONDON, LOS ANGELES AND PARIS

My elephant by Marc Quinn, Cheyne Walk.

Los Angeles

For a few months a year I have decided to rent out my three homes, one in Los Angeles, one Montparnasse in Paris and the final one in, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London,  through Russell Simpson on long or term rents .  The houses/apartment all come with housekeepers and cooks are available.  The one in Paris is truly romantic and once the home of Tamara de Lempicka, I would consider longer rentals on this one.  It is in one of the backwaters of Paris in a Mallet Stevens Building, fully furnished with a lift on the floor into the bedroom and the atelier, it is one bedroom, one office, bar area, reception area, large kitchen.  I have spent many happy times here.  It overlooks the nunnery.

The Study area upstairs of the Atelier with original furntiure

It is with Sothebys to rent or buy.  Fabrice + 33607016771 fbilly@wanadoo.fr.

Paris Tamara de Lempicka's Art Studio, in a Mallet Stevens Building.

Front of the House

Views overlooking the garden to the rear

My house in London is on with Russell Simpson to rent or buy +447785295255, is a fully furnished house in the heart of Chelsea, described by Nicky Haslam as the "most romantic" there.  With three bedrooms, immaculate condition, overlooking Albert Bridge to the front and a very pretty garden to the rear.
Finally my house in the Los Angeles is exactly what you would expect there. Again three spacious bedrooms with good views overlooking Sunset.  Immaculate with a housekeeper, you would stay in zany luxury. Please contact Bret on +1310 502 1143