Harking back to my ramble about Freddie and his art critique one is left to
wonder whether he ever had that awful job of going down to the DIY shop and
borrowing those hernia inducing wallpaper sample books?

If so, would he naturally (given his upbringing) gyrate towards Indian or
Eastern patterns - deep red flock perchance.  Flock would, in todays
parlance, make him an equal to the Lord Chancellor who has had such a bad
press over his expenditure of over #600 per roll (it may have been more) to
cover the walls of his official apartments.  I just wonder what home
decorations each of the others might have had?

John would be traditionally (s)Habitat, with white tiles in the kitchen
emblazoned with crustacea, cabbage and corn.  Brian may have chosen
something galactic, like the sky at night, but Roger something from the
Wileman collections - probably art deco.

I'm also driven to thoughts of the careers that each of our heroes parents
might have chosen for their offspring.  (I cannot remember any discussion of
this in any of the official, or even unofficial, biographies)  Mr & Mrs
Bulsara might have wanted Farookh to go into the civil service where he
would rival Quentin Crisp in his dotage.  They could just have foreseen that
F might turn out to be a career diplomat, probably Ambassador to Japan, or
somewhere with multitudinous shops and real style, but knowing the dullards
who seemingly run our (or indeed any) civil service, he would have been
third under-secretary in charge of the motor pool in Lithuania.